https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112295#M29494 <P>What kind of non-english ? </P> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:24:14 GMT aljohnson_splun 2015-01-27T22:24:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112293#M29492 <P>Hi, </P> <P>I've been trying to create an external lookup that returns results that contain non-English characters, and Splunk doesn't seem to be able to decode the output.<BR /> All I get is a string that looks like this:</P> <PRE><CODE>\uxxxx \uxxxx \uxxxx ... </CODE></PRE> <P>where the x's are numbers and letters.</P> <P>English text that the lookup returns looks fine (it doesn't need decoding). Is there anything I can do to try to make the text decode properly? I've tried to encode the text with utf-8 instead of unicode, but it still doesn't decode.</P> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:02:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112293#M29492 kuchinoh 2015-01-27T12:02:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112294#M29493 <P>Have you <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding">configured the character set encoding</A>?</P> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:23:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112294#M29493 aljohnson_splun 2015-01-27T22:23:41Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112295#M29494 <P>What kind of non-english ? </P> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:24:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112295#M29494 aljohnson_splun 2015-01-27T22:24:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112296#M29495 <P>non-english characters that come from the input itself look fine. the problem lies with characters that come from the output of an external lookup.</P> Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:20:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-an-external-lookup-that-returns-results-containing/m-p/112296#M29495 kuchinoh 2015-01-28T08:20:26Z