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Werk #8978: mk_logwatch: Use preferred locale encoding when guessing the encoding of a log file

Component Checks & agents
Title mk_logwatch: Use preferred locale encoding when guessing the encoding of a log file
Date Aug 29, 2019
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.6.0b9 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

From version 1.6.0b1 to 1.6.0b9 mk_logwatch assumed UTF-8 encoding if no byte order mark was found in the logfile. It now uses the systems preferred enconding, which is the same behavior as in earlier versions.

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