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 Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.2.0b1	Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.1.0p22	Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

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.