Spaces appearing in output

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#1 gwhitt
I am trying to read in logs stored in a flat file from an application and the output is adding a space between every characterI've change my patch to the local windows firewall log and I do not get this problem but I can see nothing strange with the source file define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog Moduledir %ROOT%\modules CacheDir %ROOT%\data Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid SpoolDir %ROOT%\data LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log Module xm_json Module xm_syslog Module im_file File 'C:\Program Files (x86)\program\logs\Dataexchange.log' SavePos TRUE Recursive TRUE Exec $Message = $raw_event; Exec $Hostname = hostname_fqdn(); Module om_file File 'c:\_nxlog.txt' Path test => local
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#1 gwhitt
I am trying to read in logs stored in a flat file from an application and the output is adding a space between every characterI've change my patch to the local windows firewall log and I do not get this problem but I can see nothing strange with the source file define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog Moduledir %ROOT%\modules CacheDir %ROOT%\data Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid SpoolDir %ROOT%\data LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log <Extension json> Module xm_json </Extension> <Extension syslog> Module xm_syslog </Extension> <Input Lenel> Module im_file File 'C:\Program Files (x86)\program\logs\Dataexchange.log' SavePos TRUE Recursive TRUE Exec $Message = $raw_event; Exec $Hostname = hostname_fqdn(); </input> <Output local> Module om_file File 'c:\_nxlog.txt' </Output> <Route test> Path test => local </Route>

What's the encoding of the source file? This could be caused by UTF16/UCS2. If that's the case see xm_charconv.