# CEF Codec issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cef-codec-issues/160695>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cef-codec-issues/160695 "2018-12-13T09:14:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![QwerFact](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e8c25b/32.png) [@QwerFact](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/QwerFact)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cef-codec-issues/160695/1 "2018-12-13T09:14:28Z")

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Hello,  
I have some Warning and Error with the CEF codec on input pipeline.  
We have some special character (like French accent é à è) not correctly decoded by the default charset UTF-8.  
The CEF codec don't accept the charset configuration.  
Anyone knows how to solve this problem?

Regards.

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**Author:** ![QwerFact](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e8c25b/32.png) [@QwerFact](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/QwerFact)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cef-codec-issues/160695/2 "2018-12-19T11:18:14Z")

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no one was impacted by this problem?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cef-codec-issues/160695/3 "2019-01-16T11:18:21Z")

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