Bug 103466 - kernel produces non UTF-8 log messages in visor.c
Summary: kernel produces non UTF-8 log messages in visor.c
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: beta1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-08-31 12:56 UTC by Sjoerd Mullender
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-09-01 22:18:02 UTC
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Description Sjoerd Mullender 2003-08-31 12:56:56 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When you attach a Palm handheld to the USB port, the kernel (actually the
usbserial driver) logs a number of messages to the syslog that contain latin-1
(i.e. non UTF-8) characters.

The culprit is the visor.c module that contains the string Cli� ("Clie" with
acute accent on the "e") in a number of places, encoded as latin-1 instead of UTF-8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Plug in Palm or compatible handheld in USB port
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Actual Results:  Message gets logged in messages file with non UTF-8 characters.

Expected Results:  Pure UTF-8 messages.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-09-01 02:20:28 UTC 
Didn't Alan fix this upstream by clamping them to ascii?
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2003-09-01 21:18:12 UTC 
Doesn't seem so. It's fixed in 2.6. I'll make sure this gets fixed up for 2.4
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2003-09-01 22:18:02 UTC 
Ok, will be in the next rawhide kernel.
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