CSV output plugin: encoding

Elastic Stack Logstash
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Hi,

I'm reading data usign jdbc from a database and writing them into a CSV file using the logstash csv output plugin. The data contains UTF-8 charcaters.
How can I configure the encoding of the csv fiel to UTF-8?

br,
Jean-Marc

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I'd expect that to be the default. What are you getting now?

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thanks for your quick response.
Looking at the file, indeed it seems to be utf-8 (but I have to further check it).
But the file has no BOM, so some tools are confused...

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further checking the data, it looks like the problem is a backslash at the end of a string.
The backslash is not escaped, so it is escaping the quote.

String (from a jdbc db): test\
Generated (quoted) string in csv file: "test\" 
The expected quoted string in csv is: "test\\"

Updated, to avoid that discuss remove the backslashes

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That definitely sounds like a bug.

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