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	Title		: Syslog-international Protocol
	Author(s)	: R. Gerhards
	Filename	: draft-ietf-syslog-international-00.txt
	Pages		: 13
	Date		: 2003-8-1

This document describes syslog-international, a mechanism adding
support for international character sets to syslog.
Syslog-international provides these features in a way that has no
requirements and no impact on existing syslog implementations. It is
possible to support syslog-international and gain some of its
functionality by only changing the behavior of the devices generating
syslog messages. Some additional processing of the received syslog
messages may realize additional benefits. There is no need to change
syslog relays in order to support syslog-international. Existing
syslog implementations will benefit from the fact that
syslog-international supporting devices emit proper syslog messages
in all cases. It is common practice for many non-syslog-international
clients to accidently emit 8 bit characters if used in e.g. European
language environments. Syslog-international just adds a protocol
layer to the MSG part of the syslog message. As such, it is
compatible with all existing and future implementations of syslog.

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