Special characters in /etc/nagios/resource.cfg - how do i mask them?

[flaviomoringa_apt (Flávio Moringa)]

Looks like my issue here:

Error in decoding UTF8 character crashes Check_MK

Hi, using 1.6.0p8 raw edition I’m having an issue apparentally related with special characters on some hardrives… It started with one, but now every new server added seems to be having this issue… The crash report says this: Exception: UnicodeDecodeError ('ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)) Traceback: File “/omd/sites/prod/lib/python/cmk_base/decorator.py”, line 54, in wrapped_check_func status, infotexts, long_infotexts, perfdata = check_func(ho…

And also here:

Error with temperature on ubuntu 18.04

Hello, I have a new installed Ubuntu 18.04 on an Intel NUC and I got an checkmk crash report while getting the tempratures. UnicodeDecodeError ('ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)) The output would be: 'output': u'OK - 50.0 \xb0C|temp=50;95;100;;', The server is on Ubuntu 18.04, too. Has anyone seen this before? Python Version is 2.7.16

But it seems no one knows how to solve…