[smokeping-users] Re: SmokePing 2.0rc5, RRDtool 1.2.11 and UTF-8

[Tobias Oetiker]

Leo,
note that rrdtool falls back to iso-latin1 as soon as it finds
problems with the utf8 conversion ...

cheers
tobi

Today Leo Bitto wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed SmokePing 2.0rc5 on a server with Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 4 ES with the original version of Perl 5.8.5-12.1 from Red Hat.
> RRDtool is the rpm package version 1.2.11-1.2.el4.test from the yum
> repository of Dag Wieërs. SmokePing is installed from the original
> package smokeping-2.0rc5.tar.gz. I have configured only some basic
> monitoring with FPing (version 2.4-1.b2.2.el4.rf from Dag Wieërs).
>
> I want to have some czech characters in the descriptions of the
> monitored targets. I would like to use the UTF-8 encoding. For the HTML
> output it was sufficient to use "charset=UTF-8" in the configuration
> file of SmokePing - this made the cgi script send the proper charset in
> the HTTP header Content-Type. However, I still see some wrong characters
> in the graph titles. I assume that this would be some issue with RRDtool
> - how can I make it use the proper encoding? The environment variable
> LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8, which is the default for Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 4 (set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n).
>
> Thanks is advance for any advices.
>
>
> Leoÿÿ Bitto
>
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