# Incompatible encodings: IBM437 and UTF-8

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incompatible-encodings-ibm437-and-utf-8/316918
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [October 18, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incompatible-encodings-ibm437-and-utf-8/316918 "2022-10-18T16:30:14Z")
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### Author: ![simon137](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@simon137](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simon137)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incompatible-encodings-ibm437-and-utf-8/316918/8 "2022-10-20T18:08:52Z")

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I seem to have the same issue, but only on all my windows desktops not on the windows server.  
And it somehow magically goes away if I redirect standard output of logstash, which just makes no sense at all.

[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue-depending-on-how-logstash-is-started/317136](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue-depending-on-how-logstash-is-started/317136)

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