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explains Unicode garbage in example from freedomofpress/securedrop#5835
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cfm authored and maeve-fpf committed Jan 11, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ You can find this ``program_name`` value using the :ref:`"ossec-logtest" command
<using_ossec_logtest>`. Copy-paste the log event as input to this command, and
it will give you some parsed output:

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Warning to editors: The instances of "“" in this example come verbatim
from actual OSSEC alerts reported (and reproduced) in
freedomofpress/securedrop#5835. Whether or not they should be considered
invalid *output* from OSSEC, they are valid *input* for the purpose of this
example and documentation. See
<https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-docs/pull/199#pullrequestreview-634460996>
for a prior discussion on this point.
::

$ echo "Mar 1 13:22:53 app fwupd[133921]: 13:22:53:0883 FuPluginUefi Error opening directory “/sys/firmware/efi/esrt/entries�: No such file or directory" | sudo /var/ossec/bin/ossec-logtest
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