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Werk #5413: Windows agent: nocontext tag did not work for multibyte encoded logfiles

Component Checks & agents
Title Windows agent: nocontext tag did not work for multibyte encoded logfiles
Date Nov 24, 2017
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.5.0i2 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.4.0p21 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

If a Windows logfile was encoded with a multibyte character encoding the nocontext flag had no effect, always outputting the full context.

The nocontext tag now works correctly, in a way similar to single-byte encoded logfiles.

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