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ModInput Error: Error Processing Windows-1252 Encoded File

malvidin
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Does the Splunk Python interpreter that ModInput uses properly read/parse files that are not UTF-8 encoded?

When parsing windows-1252 encoded XML files with the TA-dmarc app, I got the following error:

validate_xml: xml parse error for file with Unsupported encoding windows-1252, line 1, column 44

However, when I parsed the file with the same scripts contained in TA-dmarc, but using the system Python interpreter, it succeeded with no errors.

An example that causes the error is available on GitHub.
https://github.com/jorritfolmer/TA-dmarc/blob/master/bin/dmarc/test/data/aol_rua.xml

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