Submitted By: Alexander E. Patrakov
Date: 2004-05-09
Initial Package Version: 1.4.1
Origin: Alexander E. Patrakov
Upstream status: not submitted yet, probably will not be accepted
Description: Weakens rules for determining whether a character is printable.
Now only bytes < 0x20 and the 0x7f byte are considered to be unprintable.
The original rules were valid for ISO-8859-* and KOI*.

Without this fix, logging meaningful Russian messages in UTF-8 is impossible.

diff -u sysklogd-1.4.1/syslogd.c sysklogd-1.4.1.fixed/syslogd.c
--- sysklogd-1.4.1/syslogd.c	2001-03-12 00:40:10.000000000 +0500
+++ sysklogd-1.4.1.fixed/syslogd.c	2004-05-09 09:05:42.972864104 +0600
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@
 		else if (c < 040) {
 			*q++ = '^';
 			*q++ = c ^ 0100;
-		} else if (c == 0177 || (c & 0177) < 040) {
+		} else if (c == 0177) {
 			*q++ = '\\';
 			*q++ = '0' + ((c & 0300) >> 6);
 			*q++ = '0' + ((c & 0070) >> 3);