topic Re: How to edit my configurations to encode French special characters (é à ê è)? in Getting Data In

How to edit my configurations to encode French special characters (é à ê è)?

Naaba — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:02:06 GMT

Hi,

I am importing data from Gitlab to Splunk.
The data imported are in French and contains special characters like é, à, è, ê.
Data imported in Splunk are not well encoded.

For example when importing "Définition" I got "D�finition" in Splunk

I tried to configure Splunk (props.conf) with others charsets (UTF-8, latin-1) but nothing works.

Can anyone help me please?

Thank you

Re: How to edit my configurations to encode French special characters (é à ê è)?

ddrillic — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:46:32 GMT

You need to figure out the encoding of the source. The following tool helped me many times in the past - Encoding tool

So, you can capture one character from the source data and paste it in the tool's text box. Then you need to see whether it matches one of the encoding the tool supports.

Re: How to edit my configurations to encode French special characters (é à ê è)?

mdelwaide — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:07:08 GMT

Have you tried this encoding in your props.conf ?

[SOURCETYPE]
CHARSET=CP1252

Re: How to edit my configurations to encode French special characters (é à ê è)?

woodcock — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:09:08 GMT

Read this first:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding

Now, have you tried this in props.conf:

[host::<YourFrenchHost>]
CHARSET=AUTO

Make sure that the line uses ALL-CAPS.

Re: How to edit my configurations to encode French special characters (é à ê è)?

aaraneta_splunk — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:44:53 GMT

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