SerialConnect logs not visible with StyledEdit; error mesaage with Pe

[vidrep]

hrev50621 x86_gcc2 SerialConnect->File->Log to file... The logs created by the app are blank when opened in StyledEdit Opening them with Pe brings up an error message See attached screenshot

[pulkomandy]

Please attach the problematic file. Is it the one from #13031?

[vidrep]

Yes, same file. I'm going to try and replicate the issue on a clean install of hrev50621 x86_gcc2. I'll report the results shortly.

[vidrep]

Same thing after doing a fresh install of hrev50621. The file created by SerialConnect comes up blank in StyledEdit, and Pe brings up an error message.

[vidrep]

I was serial logging thjis morning while testing USB 3.0 cards and seeing the same problem with hrev50677 x86_gcc2. I have attached the file in question as well as a pair of screenshots which show the various error messages when trying to open the file with Tracker, StyledEdit and Pe.

[pulkomandy]

The serial logs include control characters (mainly for colorizing some things), as a result, they are not really plain text files.

You have also some jamming here, at the transition between the bootloader and kernel logs. This is some unclean initialization in our serial drivers.

This means the message in Pe is expected. StyledEdit could do a "best effort" to open the file still, but it can't accurately convert it to UTF-8, so there will be loss of data.