Antwort: UTF8 Japanese characters in macros

[rob.moss at uk.bnpparibas.com]

nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 18/10/2006 09:12:05:
> nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 18.10.2006 
04:26:19:
> 
> > /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios  *****\n\nNotification Type:
> > $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress:
> > $HOSTADDRESS$\n$HOSTNOTES$\n\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time:
> > $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for
> > $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> [SNIP]
> > Both printf and mail work fine with UTF8 japanese, and tests using 
only
> > the $HOSTNOTES$ macro yeilds similar results (nothing output).
> > The CGI's work fine, and display the japanese, so it seems the macro
> > processing is not able to handle the characters.
> > 
> > Has anyone had similar problems, and is there a solution?
> 
> I can't try the japanese UTF, but are you sure that /usr/bin/printf
> supports UTF8? Typing printf at the shell is not the same as using
> /usr/bin/printf. The bash built-in printf function is very different
> from the external executable and has caused lots of headaches to me
> already. It might be the source of your problem too.
> 
> Sascha
> 
> PS: This problem is one of the reasons I strongly discourage the current
> standard of how default notifications are generated...

I am also totally against how the default mail action works, which is why 
I wrote a perl script to do the emailing a little more elegantly

http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Utilities.16.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=698

Cheers
rob/mossko


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