# How to handle german Umlauts or anything thats not UTF-8

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-german-umlauts-or-anything-thats-not-utf-8/25294>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 10, 2015, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-german-umlauts-or-anything-thats-not-utf-8/25294 "2015-07-10T08:02:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-german-umlauts-or-anything-thats-not-utf-8/25294/2 "2015-07-10T08:10:24Z")

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Nice solution 🙂

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