Can Linux syslogd log non-English messages?

Question

I am setting up a logging infrastructure using syslog daemon on my Linux server. I have few clients both Windows and non-Windows that I am planning on configuring to forward logs as syslogs to my Linux server. Some of my client machines log in foreign language. Therefore, how do I forward such non-English logs as syslogs over to my Linux server? Do I need to setup any special encoding on my server and in my client? Is this the right approach or is there any other better way to do this?

Answer 1

The current syslogd is 8-bit clean, so encode for UTF-8 and you will be fine. Just make sure that the consoles or anything that uses the actual logs knows that the data is UTF-8 encoded so that it can be displayed properly later.