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Hi,
After uploading csv file and indexing, I found out that most, if not all of my special characters becomes "�" when viewed in splunk search.
Any help to fix this would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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Hi @dojiepreji,
As explained in the documentation for CSV lookups :
The characters in the CSV file must be plain ASCII text and valid UTF-8 characters. Non-UTF-8 characters are not supported.
More info here :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Knowledge/Usefieldlookupstoaddinformationtoyourev...
You should try to replace these characters with character from the UTF-8 set.
Cheers,
David
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Hi @dojiepreji,
As explained in the documentation for CSV lookups :
The characters in the CSV file must be plain ASCII text and valid UTF-8 characters. Non-UTF-8 characters are not supported.
More info here :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Knowledge/Usefieldlookupstoaddinformationtoyourev...
You should try to replace these characters with character from the UTF-8 set.
Cheers,
David
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How are you creating and saving these csv files?
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I create them from microsoft excel and use export to csv within the app to save it as a csv file. The csv is fine. It is only in splunk that the special characters gets replaced with �.
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