# :expected\_charset=\>"UTF-8", :level=\>:warn}

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/expected-charset-utf-8-level-warn/53587>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 22, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/expected-charset-utf-8-level-warn/53587 "2016-06-22T00:04:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![santyuste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@santyuste](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/santyuste)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/expected-charset-utf-8-level-warn/53587/1 "2016-06-22T00:04:52Z")

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When i recibed a event windows log from agent windows server:

:expected\_charset=\>"UTF-8", :level=\>:warn}

Received an event that has a different character encoding than you configured. {:text=\>"{\"rule\......

hown can i do?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/expected-charset-utf-8-level-warn/53587/2 "2017-07-06T04:51:20Z")

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