https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Character-encoding-when-sending-to-TCP-port/m-p/112782#M97608 <P>I am sending data to a TCP port I configured for input on the Splunk server. How should the (string) data be encoded - ASCII, ANSI (in that case: which codepage?), UTF-8 or UTF-16 (aka UCS-2)?</P> Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:03:03 GMT helge 2014-03-31T12:03:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Character-encoding-when-sending-to-TCP-port/m-p/112782#M97608 <P>I am sending data to a TCP port I configured for input on the Splunk server. How should the (string) data be encoded - ASCII, ANSI (in that case: which codepage?), UTF-8 or UTF-16 (aka UCS-2)?</P> Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:03:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Character-encoding-when-sending-to-TCP-port/m-p/112782#M97608 helge 2014-03-31T12:03:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Character-encoding-when-sending-to-TCP-port/m-p/112783#M97609 <P>Based on my experiments it seems Splunk expects the encoding to be UTF-8. I sent strings with German, Greek and Russing special characters and they were displayed correctly in the web UI.</P> <P>Example:</P> <P><IMG src="http://answers.splunk.com//storage/Splunk_TCP_character_encoding.png" alt="alt text" /></P> <P>I also tried UCS-2, but that did not work out too well:</P> <P><IMG src="http://answers.splunk.com//storage/Splunk_TCP_character_encoding_UCS-2.png" alt="alt text" /></P> Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:07:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Character-encoding-when-sending-to-TCP-port/m-p/112783#M97609 helge 2014-03-31T12:07:15Z