From 4fc195111db5d68eb97d259ed8bc67beae95302d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tkikuchi <>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:30:04 +0000
Subject: Python 2.4 may fail to write 8bit (non-ascii) characters. I think
 quoted-printable is the safest escape for logging.

---
 Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Mailman')

diff --git a/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py b/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
index b680d7f9..654ce64c 100644
--- a/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
+++ b/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
@@ -55,7 +55,12 @@ class _Syslog:
         # It's really bad if exceptions in the syslogger cause other crashes
         except Exception, e:
             msg = 'Bad format "%s": %s: %s' % (origmsg, repr(e), e)
-        logf.write(msg + '\n')
+        try:
+            logf.write(msg + '\n')
+        except UnicodeError:
+            # Python 2.4 may fail to write 8bit (non-ascii) characters
+            import quopri
+            logf.write(quopri.encodestring(msg) + '\n')
 
     # For the ultimate in convenience
     __call__ = write
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