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From: James Hunt <james.hunt@ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:30:21 +0000
Subject: Is ASCII the expected udev character encoding?
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Hi All,

Working on the Ubuntu bug below where a battery unit is exposing non-printable characters via udev
made me wonder: is the expected character encoding for all udev messages ASCII? Or is the
expectation that the kernel simply acts as a pass-through (such that it is the responsibility of
userspace to determine the exact meaning of such messages)? If ASCII is expected, should this be
made manifest somewhere?

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/829980

I'm happy to provide a kernel patch for the bug above, but need to understand whether the kernel
should be sanitizing udev message content, or leaving that up to userspace.

Kind regards,

James.