Use UTF-8 instead

[nabeken]

CloudWatch Logs API can accept UTF-8 but this plugin sets force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT') and it prevents us from sending messages that has valid UTF-8 string.

Changes

• Use String#encode to encode strings to UTF-8 and set :invalid => :replace to ensure that invalid UTF-8 strings will be replaced and let the plugin continues working
• Use String#bytesize instead of String#length

[hundt]

👍 I ran into this issue today--the current code not only won't send UTF-8 but raises an exception (and makes the plugin stop working) if any non-ASCII characters are present.

[ryotarai]

Thank you!

[ryotarai]

v0.1.2 released

[cdenneen]

running 0.4.5 and still seeing this issue

2019-03-27 16:48:01 +0000 [warn]: temporarily failed to flush the buffer. next_retry=2019-03-27 16:47:12 +0000 error_class="Encoding::UndefinedConversionError" error="\"\\xE2\" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8" plugin_id="object:2ac8eebb65fc"