Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.

Lib/logging/handlers.py

@@ -779,6 +779,10 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
             self.encodePriority(self.facility,
                                 self.mapPriority(record.levelname)),
                                 msg)
+        #Message is a string. Convert to bytes as required by RFC 5424
+        msg = msg.encode('utf-8')
+        if codecs:
+            msg = codecs.BOM_UTF8 + msg
         try:
             if self.unixsocket:
                 try:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ C-API
 Library
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+- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
+
 - Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
   larger than emax.