On Jul 14, 7:08 pm, Joe Hughes <jwhug...@hughesconcepts.com> wrote: > This is why I did what I did, because I couldn't figure it out either. I did > find issue 5421 at python.org which is where I got the idea for the code > change.
Perhaps you should read the messages for issue 7077, linked to by Peter above. You'll see that according to RFC 5424, syslog UDP messages should be encoded in UTF-8 with a BOM, not ASCII. Revisions r75586 and later of the Python repository implement the correct fix for the problem. My suggestion (in the blog post I linked to) would apply to socket applications other than syslog. Regards, Vinay Sajip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
