I saw this in a post stating that it would be in 0.9.20. I'm currently using 0.9.26. <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"> <encoder> <pattern>%d %t [%-5level] - %-40class{40} - %msg%n</pattern> <charset>UTF-8</charset> </encoder> </appender> Is there charset support for the syslogappender as well? If so, how is it configured as I don't see the "encoder" element in the documentation for syslogappender either? Thanks, Dave