Log4Net: Logging in 2 byte languages (japanese, chinese etc.)

Question

I would like to log data to a file in 2 byte languages (chinese, japanese etc) using log4net.

How to properly configure log4net to do that?

[The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html) - Unicode doesn't always mean 2 bytes. — Justin, Aug 05 '11 at 12:27
@Kragen agree. I'm interested in the 2 bytes case. See examples I gave. — nakhli, Aug 05 '11 at 12:35
@Kragen How to configure log4net to handle any encoding I want? — nakhli, Aug 05 '11 at 13:10

score 76 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 16 '16 at 19:09

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The log file encoding is specified by FileAppender.Encoding. It can be configured using the encoding configuration element. Example:

<appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
    <file value="file.log" />
    <encoding value="utf-8" />
    ...

The value is the code page name. The corresponding Encoding is obtained using the System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(string) method. For a list of code pages, see the Encoding class documentation.

edited Mar 16 '16 at 19:09

Qny

answered Nov 04 '11 at 09:03

nakhli

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