Comment 2 for bug 1892983

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

Near as I can tell, this is out of spec. IPMI v2 spec explicitly suggests UTF-8 or UNICODE or ASCII+Latin1 for encoding. Anything outside of that is not within IPMI v2 specs.

However, the section on security keys does not mention specific encoding for the key when returned. This is a bit of a grey area. I'm not a fan of changing the encoding for the entire script to something that's not UTF-8 or Unicode when every other server in the world uses that standard.