mozilla/playdoh — Issue #85: Workaround Unicode syslog/logging bugs in python 2.6
Author: kumar303
Created: 2011-11-04 23:38:13+00:00
State: open

Python 2.6 has an [unfortunate bug](http://bugs.python.org/issue7077) where Unicode log messages would error in syslog but the errors were silent unless you were checking your stderr. The typical symptom is that messages would be missing from your production logs and you'd have no idea why.

Let's port the AMO fix to Playdoh:

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/8963c692aaf7d20f30946506315578ab8322d609
https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/f82c140bd6362ed7a68df4c3a4a09a674d5585f5