diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/model/dossiertemplate/FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/model/dossiertemplate/FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration.java
index 61641330f..4f8b00fae 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/model/dossiertemplate/FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/model/dossiertemplate/FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration.java
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ public class FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration {
     private String dossierTemplateId;
     private String filenameMappingColumnHeaderName;
     private String delimiter;
+    private String encoding;
 
 }
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/resources/FileAttributesConfigResource.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/resources/FileAttributesConfigResource.java
index 43566d9e6..463a3ef48 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/resources/FileAttributesConfigResource.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-api-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/service/v1/api/resources/FileAttributesConfigResource.java
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ public interface FileAttributesConfigResource {
     String FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID = "fileAttributeId";
     String FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID_PATH_VARIABLE = "/{" + FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID + "}";
 
+    String UTF_ENCODING = "UTF-8";
+    String ASCII_ENCODING = "ASCII";
+    String ISO_ENCODING = "ISO-8601";
 
     @ResponseBody
     @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.OK)
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/entity/configuration/FileAttributesGeneralConfigurationEntity.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/entity/configuration/FileAttributesGeneralConfigurationEntity.java
index 40fba428a..325c976da 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/entity/configuration/FileAttributesGeneralConfigurationEntity.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/entity/configuration/FileAttributesGeneralConfigurationEntity.java
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ public class FileAttributesGeneralConfigurationEntity {
     private String filenameMappingColumnHeaderName;
     @Column
     private String delimiter;
+    @Column
+    private String encoding;
 
     @OneToOne
     @JsonIgnore
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/DossierTemplateCloneService.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/DossierTemplateCloneService.java
index 5b90501ea..1a5afb981 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/DossierTemplateCloneService.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/DossierTemplateCloneService.java
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ public class DossierTemplateCloneService {
             var fagc = FileAttributesGeneralConfigurationEntity.builder()
                     .dossierTemplateId(clonedDossierTemplateId)
                     .delimiter(fileAttributesGeneralConfig.getDelimiter())
+                    .encoding(fileAttributesGeneralConfig.getEncoding())
                     .filenameMappingColumnHeaderName(fileAttributesGeneralConfig.getFilenameMappingColumnHeaderName())
                     .build();
             fileAttributeConfigPersistenceService.setFileAttributesGeneralConfig(clonedDossierTemplateId, fagc);
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/persistence/FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/persistence/FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService.java
index c0f9f9181..bbbd9972a 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/persistence/FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-processor-v1/src/main/java/com/iqser/red/service/persistence/management/v1/processor/service/persistence/FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import com.iqser.red.service.persistence.management.v1.processor.service.persist
 
 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 
+import static com.iqser.red.service.persistence.service.v1.api.resources.FileAttributesConfigResource.*;
+
 @Service
 @RequiredArgsConstructor
 public class FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService {
@@ -85,6 +87,7 @@ public class FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService {
 
         fileAttributesConfig.setDossierTemplateId(dossierTemplateId);
         fileAttributesConfig.setDossierTemplate(dossierTemplateRepository.getOne(dossierTemplateId));
+        fileAttributesConfig.setEncoding(this.getValidatedEncoding(fileAttributesConfig.getEncoding()));
         return fileAttributesGeneralConfigurationRepository.save(fileAttributesConfig);
     }
 
@@ -163,7 +166,18 @@ public class FileAttributeConfigPersistenceService {
                 throw new ConflictException("Placeholder already exists.");
             }
         });
+    }
 
+    private String getValidatedEncoding(String encoding) {
+        if (StringUtils.isBlank(encoding))
+            return UTF_ENCODING;
+        if (UTF_ENCODING.equalsIgnoreCase(encoding.trim()))
+            return UTF_ENCODING;
+        if (ASCII_ENCODING.equalsIgnoreCase(encoding.trim()))
+            return ASCII_ENCODING;
+        if (ISO_ENCODING.equalsIgnoreCase(encoding.trim()))
+            return ISO_ENCODING;
+        return UTF_ENCODING;
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/db.changelog-tenant.yaml b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/db.changelog-tenant.yaml
index 2e64391d5..ecc6ebc79 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/db.changelog-tenant.yaml
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/db.changelog-tenant.yaml
@@ -103,3 +103,5 @@ databaseChangeLog:
       file: db/changelog/tenant/40-remove-quartz.changelog.yaml
   - include:
       file: db/changelog/tenant/sql/41-update-ocr-file-columns.sql
+  - include:
+      file: db/changelog/tenant/sql/42-add-encoding-column-file-attribute-config.sql
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/tenant/sql/42-add-encoding-column-file-attribute-config.sql b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/tenant/sql/42-add-encoding-column-file-attribute-config.sql
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb525e4d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/db/changelog/tenant/sql/42-add-encoding-column-file-attribute-config.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ALTER TABLE file_attribute_general_configuration ADD COLUMN encoding VARCHAR(255);
+update file_attribute_general_configuration set encoding = 'UTF-8';
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/DossierTemplateTest.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/DossierTemplateTest.java
index 9aefce56d..0521cc103 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/DossierTemplateTest.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/DossierTemplateTest.java
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ public class DossierTemplateTest extends AbstractPersistenceServerServiceTest {
                 FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration.builder()
                         .dossierTemplateId(dossierTemplate.getId())
                         .delimiter("")
+                        .encoding("UTF-8")
                         .filenameMappingColumnHeaderName("filenameMappingColumnHeaderName")
                         .build());
         fileAttributeConfigClient.setFileAttributesConfig(dossierTemplate.getId(),
@@ -328,6 +329,8 @@ public class DossierTemplateTest extends AbstractPersistenceServerServiceTest {
                 .getCsvColumnHeader()).isEqualTo(fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributeConfigs(clonedDT.getId()).get(0).getCsvColumnHeader());
         assertThat(fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributesGeneralConfig(dossierTemplate.getId())
                 .getFilenameMappingColumnHeaderName()).isEqualTo(fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributesGeneralConfig(clonedDT.getId()).getFilenameMappingColumnHeaderName());
+        assertThat(fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributesGeneralConfig(dossierTemplate.getId())
+                .getEncoding()).isEqualTo(fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributesGeneralConfig(clonedDT.getId()).getEncoding());
         assertThat(reportTemplateClient.getAvailableReportTemplates(dossierTemplate.getId()).get(0).getFileName()).isEqualTo(reportTemplateClient.getAvailableReportTemplates(
                 clonedDT.getId()).get(0).getFileName());
         assertThat(dictionaryClient.getColors(dossierTemplate.getId()).getRequestAddColor()).isEqualTo(dictionaryClient.getColors(clonedDT.getId()).getRequestAddColor());
@@ -683,6 +686,7 @@ public class DossierTemplateTest extends AbstractPersistenceServerServiceTest {
                 FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration.builder()
                         .dossierTemplateId(dossierTemplate.getId())
                         .delimiter("")
+                        .encoding("UTF-8")
                         .filenameMappingColumnHeaderName("filenameMappingColumnHeaderName")
                         .build());
         fileAttributeConfigClient.setFileAttributesConfig(dossierTemplate.getId(),
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/FileAttributeTest.java b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/FileAttributeTest.java
index 450576fa3..42fdb3918 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/FileAttributeTest.java
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/test/java/com/iqser/red/service/peristence/v1/server/integration/tests/FileAttributeTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package com.iqser.red.service.peristence.v1.server.integration.tests;
 
+import static com.iqser.red.service.persistence.service.v1.api.resources.FileAttributesConfigResource.ASCII_ENCODING;
+import static com.iqser.red.service.persistence.service.v1.api.resources.FileAttributesConfigResource.UTF_ENCODING;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -65,6 +67,12 @@ public class FileAttributeTest extends AbstractPersistenceServerServiceTest {
         fileAttributeConfigClient.setFileAttributesGeneralConfig(dossier.getDossierTemplateId(), generalConfig);
         var loadedConfig = fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributesGeneralConfig(dossier.getDossierTemplateId());
         assertThat(loadedConfig.getDelimiter()).isEqualTo(",");
+        assertThat(loadedConfig.getEncoding()).isEqualTo(UTF_ENCODING);
+
+        generalConfig.setEncoding(" ASCII ");
+        fileAttributeConfigClient.setFileAttributesGeneralConfig(dossier.getDossierTemplateId(), generalConfig);
+        loadedConfig = fileAttributeConfigClient.getFileAttributesGeneralConfig(dossier.getDossierTemplateId());
+        assertThat(loadedConfig.getEncoding()).isEqualTo(ASCII_ENCODING);
 
         List<FileAttributeConfig> configs = new ArrayList<>();
         configs.add(FileAttributeConfig.builder().csvColumnHeader("Name").primaryAttribute(true).label("Name").build());
@@ -164,6 +172,7 @@ public class FileAttributeTest extends AbstractPersistenceServerServiceTest {
 
         FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration generalConfig = new FileAttributesGeneralConfiguration();
         generalConfig.setDelimiter(",");
+        generalConfig.setEncoding("UTF-8");
         generalConfig.setFilenameMappingColumnHeaderName("Name");
         generalConfig.setDossierTemplateId(dossier.getDossierTemplateId());