# Kibana export CSV encoding

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-csv-encoding/286656>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-csv-encoding/286656 "2021-10-13T18:49:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Schroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richard_schroeder/32/86153_2.png) [@Richard\_Schroeder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Richard_Schroeder)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-csv-encoding/286656/1 "2021-10-13T18:49:23Z")

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Is there any way to change the default encoding of the CSV file when exporting data from a visualization?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/5/053cb767d1d731cdcedcf3ec12ab74df04c908b6.png)

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**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-csv-encoding/286656/2 "2021-10-14T12:40:46Z")

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Hi @Richard_Schroeder, as far as I understand, the data in Elasticsearch is always stored as UTF8 and there is no functionality to transform the text strings into any other encoding.

Hope it helps.

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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:** [November 11, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-csv-encoding/286656/3 "2021-11-11T12:40:48Z")

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