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1.8.2 Event Log Names

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Each event log has a name that is a Unicode string. The EventLog Remoting Protocol supports both Unicode, as specified in [MS-DTYP], and ANSI strings. In this specification, ANSI strings refer to multi-byte strings in which the encoding is controlled by the current system code page. One of the most common code pages is ANSI Latin-1, as specified in [ISO/IEC-8859-1]. More information about the use of Unicode and ANSI strings in the EventLog Remoting Protocol is specified in section 2.2.10. This name MUST be unique across all event logs on the same server. Event log names SHOULD<3> be prefixed with the name of the entity that created the event log to avoid collisions.