# Input file codec json UTF-16 parse error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-codec-json-utf-16-parse-error/70778
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-codec-json-utf-16-parse-error/70778 "2017-01-06T11:08:18Z")
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### Author:  [@sungjun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sungjun)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-codec-json-utf-16-parse-error/70778/1 "2017-01-06T11:08:18Z")
Hi i am korean. We used logstash on a windows server.
logs are written in utf-16.
but Logstash does not correctly interpret json except the first line.
this is config file
```
input {
file {
path =>
start_position => 'beginning'
codec => json {
charset => 'UTF-16'
}
}
}
output {
file {
path =>
codec => json_lines {
charset => 'UTF-8'
}
}
}
```
and error message
> [2017-01-06T08:55:59,899][ERROR][logstash.codecs.json] JSON parse error, original data now in message field {:error=\>#\ at [Source: {"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 15:57:51","Action":"LOGOUT","Uid":698,"NickName":"¸í��ì�´ì�¤ì�¢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�; line: 1, column: 84]\>, :data=\>"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 15:57:51","Action":"LOGOUT","Uid":698,"NickName":"¸퉀왴잤숢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�"}
> {"Action":"LOGIN","Description":"test","NickName":"트와이스","Cash":0,"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 15:56:52","tags":,"Uid":698,"Coin":0,"path":"/home/ec2-user/USER/UTF16.json","ServerID":0,"@timestamp":"2017-01-06T08:55:59.882Z","@version":"1","host":"ip-172-31-14-82","Level":1,"Exp":0}
> [2017-01-06T08:55:59,989][ERROR][logstash.codecs.json] JSON parse error, original data now in message field {:error=\>#\ at [Source: {"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:02:02","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":607,"NickName":"hí��ê¹�í��ì��ê°¢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�; line: 1, column: 84]\>, :data=\>"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:02:02","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":607,"NickName":"h험깜헜숄갢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�"}
> [2017-01-06T08:55:59,992][ERROR][logstash.codecs.json] JSON parse error, original data now in message field {:error=\>#\ at [Source: {"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:02:20","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":801,"NickName":"Ã�ì��í��ë��í�¢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�; line: 1, column: 83]\>, :data=\>"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:02:20","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":801,"NickName":"Ì옄햙럈퀢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�"}
> [2017-01-06T08:55:59,995][ERROR][logstash.codecs.json] JSON parse error, original data now in message field {:error=\>#\ at [Source: {"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:04:06","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":595,"NickName":"¨ë�©ì��í�¢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�; line: 1, column: 82]\>, :data=\>"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:04:06","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":595,"NickName":"¨납옄혢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�"}
> {"path":"/home/ec2-user/USER/UTF16.json","@timestamp":"2017-01-06T08:55:59.920Z","@version":"1","host":"ip-172-31-14-82","message":"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 15:57:51","Action":"LOGOUT","Uid":698,"NickName":"¸퉀왴잤숢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�","tags":["\_jsonparsefailure"]}
and output file
> {"Action":"LOGOUT","Description":"test","NickName":"트와이스","Cash":0,"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 15:57:51","tags":,"Uid":698,"Coin":0,"path":"D:/USER\_20170106\_155652\_0000.json","ServerID":0,"@timestamp":"2017-01-06T09:00:46.491Z","@version":"1","host":"WP-SUNGJUN","Level":1,"Exp":0}
> {"path":"D:/USER\_20170106\_155652\_0000.json","@timestamp":"2017-01-06T09:00:49.594Z","@version":"1","host":"WP-SUNGJUN","message":"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:02:02","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":607,"NickName":"h험깜헜숄갢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�","tags":["\_jsonparsefailure"]}
> {"path":"D:/USER\_20170106\_155652\_0000.json","@timestamp":"2017-01-06T09:00:49.602Z","@version":"1","host":"WP-SUNGJUN","message":"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:02:20","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":801,"NickName":"Ì옄햙럈퀢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�","tags":["\_jsonparsefailure"]}
> {"Action":"LOGIN","Description":"test","NickName":"soulaby","Cash":0,"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:04:03","tags":,"Uid":250,"Coin":0,"path":"D:/USER\_20170106\_155652\_0000.json","ServerID":0,"@timestamp":"2017-01-06T09:00:49.658Z","@version":"1","host":"WP-SUNGJUN","Level":1,"Exp":0}
> {"path":"D:/USER\_20170106\_155652\_0000.json","@timestamp":"2017-01-06T09:00:49.662Z","@version":"1","host":"WP-SUNGJUN","message":"{"TimeStamp":"2017-01-06 16:04:06","Action":"LOGIN","Uid":595,"NickName":"¨납옄혢,"Level":1,"Exp":0,"Coin":0,"Cash":0,"ServerID":0,"Description":"test"}�","tags":["\_jsonparsefailure"]}
i want solution.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-codec-json-utf-16-parse-error/70778/2 "2017-02-03T11:08:18Z")
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