Pfsense file encoding & logs & syslog

[pszafer]

Hello,

I have problem with logs stored in pfSense, for me problem concerns openvpn.log, but this is problem in general as I think.

So files in pfsense are stored by default with encoding:

text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I have openvpn config which involves smartcards certificates and have users, who have Polish characters in names like 'ł'.
All data are stored in UTF-8.

This is output of /var/log/openvpn.log:

Feb 22 10:41:34 router openvpn[97242]: Wies\xc5M-^Baw […]

and pfSense syslog interface can't event show those lines! (file attached).

Sending to syslog also breaks system, because as far as I know syslog servers expect to receive UTF-8 always and not messed up us-ascii.

What can I do with this error and don't you think that pfsense should run in utf-8 mode?