How to get an external lookup that returns results containing non-english charsets to decode properly?

[kuchinoh]

Hi,

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.
All I get is a string that looks like this:

\uxxxx \uxxxx \uxxxx ... 

where the x's are numbers and letters.

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.

[aljohnson_splun]

What kind of non-english ?

[aljohnson_splun]

Have you configured the character set encoding?

[kuchinoh]

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.