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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-01-27 15:13:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-01-27 15:13:54 +0100 |
| commit | 85045270f69e4dcb25c409c9661e96e3172d7f30 (patch) | |
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added $Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive directive
Thanks to David Lang for suggesting this functionality.
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diff --git a/doc/rsconf1_escape8bitcharsonreceive.html b/doc/rsconf1_escape8bitcharsonreceive.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..408851c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rsconf1_escape8bitcharsonreceive.html @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +<html> +<head> +<title>rsyslog.conf file</title> +</head> +<body> +<a href="rsyslog_conf_global.html">back</a> + +<h2>$Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive</h2> +<p><b>Type:</b> global configuration directive</p> +<p><b>Default:</b> off</p> +<p><b>Available Since:</b> 5.5.2</p> +<p><b>Description:</b></p> +<p>This directive instructs rsyslogd to replace non US-ASCII characters (those that +have the 8th bit set) during reception of the message. +This may be useful for some systems. +Please note that this escaping breaks Unicode and many other encodings. Most importantly, +it can be assumed that Asian and European characters will be rendered hardly readable by +this settings. However, it may still be useful when the logs themself are primarily +in English and only occasionally contain local script. +If this option is turned on, all control-characters are converted to a 3-digit octal number and be prefixed with the $ControlCharacterEscapePrefix character (being '#' by default). +<p><b>Warning:</b></p> +<ul> + <li>turning on this option most probably destroys non-western character sets + (like Japanese, Chinese and Korean) as well as European character sets.</li> + <li>turning on this option destroys digital signatures if such exists inside + the message</li> + <li>if turned on, the drop-cc, space-cc and escape-cc + <a href="property_replacer.html">property replacer</a> options do not work + as expected because control characters are already removed upon message + reception. If you intend to use these property replacer options, you must + turn off $Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive.</li> +</ul> +<p><b>Sample:</b></p> +<p><code><b>$Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive on</b></code></p> + +<p>[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf overview</a>] [<a href="manual.html">manual +index</a>] [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p> +<p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the +<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br> +Copyright © 2010 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and +<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL +version 3 or higher.</font></p> +</body> +</html> |