# Logstash multiline charset =\> "UTF-8"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 31, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146 "2023-10-31T15:25:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ranjini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@ranjini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ranjini)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146/1 "2023-10-31T15:25:53Z")

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```auto
[2023-10-31T12:01:11,534][WARN][logstash.codecs.multiline][main][a029b778777f02de25308ca25697ff60da99dc3bc13beaf4e1c2d010740b27d8] Received an event that has a different character encoding than you configured. {:text=>"2023-10-26T10:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1 23D96FAFAB40E3DFC5DC16D40C7C9093.route1 - *************************************************************** \\r", :expected_charset=>"UTF-8"}

I have the charset
file {
    path => "C:/Program Files (x86)/test.log"
    type => "orion"
    codec => multiline {
      pattern => "^%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601}"
      negate => true
      what => "previous"
      charset => "UTF-8"
    }
    start_position => "beginning"
  }

```

Why is it still complaining about the charset?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146/2 "2023-10-31T17:18:55Z")

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> [@ranjini](#):
>
> Why is it still complaining about the charset?

It is expecting to receive UTF-8 characters, and it is complaining because at least one character in the text it read is _not_ a valid UTF-8 character.

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**Author:** ![ranjini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@ranjini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ranjini)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146/3 "2023-11-01T10:42:44Z")

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How to get this solved?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146/4 "2023-11-01T17:20:44Z")

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Change the charset option to whatever encoding the text being consumed is actually using. It is not UTF-8.

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**Author:** ![ranjini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@ranjini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ranjini)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146/5 "2023-11-02T17:14:56Z")

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Thanks @Badger for your help.

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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 30, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-multiline-charset-utf-8/346146/6 "2023-11-30T17:15:13Z")

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