# Unicode Characters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicode-characters/174611>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 29, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicode-characters/174611 "2019-03-29T21:09:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![muraliv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@muraliv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muraliv)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicode-characters/174611/1 "2019-03-29T21:09:33Z")

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Hi All,

I apologize if this question has been asked already by other members of this forum. I am pulling events from Kafka and getting data similar to this. Is there any way I could replace these characters with "" ?

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Thanks  
Murali

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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:** [March 30, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicode-characters/174611/2 "2019-03-30T12:35:59Z")

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You could use a [mutate+gsub](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-mutate.html#plugins-filters-mutate-gsub) to do a substitution, but you might want to add a codec to the input that uses an appropriate [charset](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-codecs-plain.html#plugins-codecs-plain-charset).

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**Author:** ![muraliv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@muraliv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muraliv)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicode-characters/174611/3 "2019-04-01T12:46:10Z")

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Hi Badger,

Thank you, I will try it out.

Murali

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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:** [April 29, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unicode-characters/174611/4 "2019-04-29T12:46:15Z")

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