https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184028#M36833 <P>CSV files may need to be UTF-16LE.</P> Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:24:19 GMT snowmizer 2016-02-04T01:24:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184025#M36830 <P>Hello,<BR /> I am having issues with csv files imported from an S3 bucket. The files get imported and indexed fine however what I get when i try to do a search on what has been indexed is something like this:</P> <P>\x95\x90@\x12\xb1\xe4;g.\xa6\xa3\xfd\x99\xdf\x88I\xc4c\x08\xdb\x03\x00\x00\</P> <P>Is there something im missing that prevents the simple csv file from being read properly?<BR /> Thanks for your help.<BR /> Cesar</P> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:04:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184025#M36830 cesardavila 2013-12-18T19:04:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184026#M36831 <P>Hi Cesar,</P> <P>Looks like you might be character encoding issues - can you try <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/data/Configurecharactersetencoding">manually specifying a character set</A>?</P> <P>dart</P> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:06:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184026#M36831 dart 2013-12-18T21:06:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184027#M36832 <P>Hey, Thanks for the suggestion.<BR /> I forced the character set utc-8 but still getting the same result. Any other ideas? It happens with .csv files as well as .csv.zip.<BR /> Thanks again for your help.</P> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:26:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184027#M36832 cesardavila 2013-12-18T22:26:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184028#M36833 <P>CSV files may need to be UTF-16LE.</P> Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:24:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/CSV-File-Issues/m-p/184028#M36833 snowmizer 2016-02-04T01:24:19Z