# Implementing utf-8-sig in Logstash conf file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-utf-8-sig-in-logstash-conf-file/267251
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-utf-8-sig-in-logstash-conf-file/267251 "2021-03-15T11:45:50Z")
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### Author:  [@shafeeka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shafeeka)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-utf-8-sig-in-logstash-conf-file/267251/1 "2021-03-15T11:45:50Z")
Hi everyone, I was trying to implement skip\_header within my Csv filter plugin. However, I'm unsuccessful as my first column's header has this invisible \ufeff character and hence it does not match the name I specified in the columns array (e.g "Question" vs "\ufeffQuestion" causes failure).
I know a solution to this problem is to read my CSV file with encoding utf-8-sig. However, I can only implement utf-8 in Logstash based on the documentation.
Anyone knows how to implement **utf-8-sig** for the Logstash config file?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-utf-8-sig-in-logstash-conf-file/267251/2 "2021-04-12T11:45:58Z")
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