Werk #15180: logwatch agent plugin on Windows: Enable monitoring of log files with non-ASCII characters in their paths

Component Checks & agents
Title logwatch agent plugin on Windows: Enable monitoring of log files with non-ASCII characters in their paths
Date Feb 6, 2023
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.3.0b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.2.0b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p22 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Before this werk, the logwatch agent plugin crashed with

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character ...: ordinal not in range(128)

for log files whose paths contained non-ASCII characters.

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