# Found encoding issue with Filebeat MS SQL module

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/found-encoding-issue-with-filebeat-ms-sql-module/242336
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/found-encoding-issue-with-filebeat-ms-sql-module/242336 "2020-07-23T11:39:24Z")
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### Author: ![varun1992](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3da27b/32.png) [@varun1992](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varun1992)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/found-encoding-issue-with-filebeat-ms-sql-module/242336/1 "2020-07-23T11:39:25Z")

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Filebeat MS SQL module has a encoding issue

ERRORLOG files in SQL folder is a **utf-16le-bom** encoded files

but that is not specified in the config.yml file of the filebeat mssql module folder

please add **`encoding: utf-16le-bom`** in the config.yml file

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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: [August 20, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/found-encoding-issue-with-filebeat-ms-sql-module/242336/2 "2020-08-20T13:39:28Z")

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