Blake Bender created GEODE-9487:
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Summary: Timezone is potentially invalid string in log files for
non-English locales
Key: GEODE-9487
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-9487
Project: Geode
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: native client
Reporter: Blake Bender
The native client logger was rewritten several months ago to use, among other
things, `std::put_time` when formatting log strings, specifically using the
"%Z" formatting for timezone. The documentation for this formatting says
"writes locale-dependent time zone name or abbreviation, or no characters if
the time zone information is not available," and indeed it does. We just
received a log file from a customer machine in APJ region, i.e. locale is set
to something like Traditional Chinese. These strings are dumped into the log
file as is, in some unknown MBCS encoding, and contain invalid utf-8 start
codes, throwing off our Python-based parsing tool.
We should probably just drop time zone from our logs, or normalize everything
somehow. In any case, we need to write valid utf-8, just to play well with
others.
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