Can Linux syslogd log non-English messages?

Question

I am creating a logging infrastructure using the syslog daemon on my Linux server. I have few clients, both Windows and non-Windows, that I plan to configure to forward logs as syslogs to my Linux server. Some of my client computers register in a foreign language. Therefore, how do I forward non-English logs like syslogs to my Linux server? Do I need to configure any special encoding on my server and on my client? Is this the right approach or is there any other better way to do this?

Answer 1

The current syslogd is 8-bit clean, so it is encoded for UTF-8, and everything will be fine. Just make sure that the consoles or everything that uses the actual logs knows that the data is UTF-8 encoded so that it can be displayed correctly later.