LogFileEncodingFormat — Legacy
This documentation is for legacy Kiwi Syslog Server versions 9.8.3 and older.
Use this Kiwi Syslog Server registry setting to change the encoding format used to write messages to log files.
| Section (32-bit Windows OS) | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolarWinds\Syslogd\Properties |
| Section (64-bit Windows OS) | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node\SolarWinds\Syslogd\Properties |
| Value (STRING) | LogFileEncodingFormat |
| Min value | 0 |
| Max value | 65535 |
| Default value | 1 (System) |
| Type | Code page number |
Normally the messages are written to the log files using the default encoding format (code page) of the system. If you are receiving messages from systems that use different default code pages, the best solution is to send/receive the messages using UTF-8 encoding. Kiwi Syslog Server can be set to convert the received messages into Unicode internally. When writing Unicode messages to a log file, it is recommended that you use UTF-8 (code page 65001) encoding. UTF-8 can represent all of the Unicode character set.
The various code pages available on most Windows systems are available on Microsoft website.
Here are some common code page numbers.
| Name | Code page number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| System | 1 | System Code Page |
| ANSI | 0 | ANSI |
| UTF-8 | 65001 | Unicode Transformation Format 8 |
| Shift-JIS | 932 | Japanese |
| EUC-JP | 51932 | Japanese Extended Unix Code |
| BIG5 | 950 | Traditional Chinese |
| Chinese | 936 | Simplified Chinese |
If the number you specify is not a valid Code Page on your system, no data will be written to the file.
If in doubt, use UTF-8 encoding (65001) as it will handle all Unicode characters.