How are you viewing the CSV file? Assuming the output is UTF-8 (which should be the case unless you've instructed Splunk to use a different character set for this source), you might need to tell Excel to use UTF-8 when you open the CSV. http://stackoverflow.com/a/6488070 has some instructions for this. If you are opening it with another application, make sure that it supports and recognizes the character set that the data is in. ... View more