Actually even if that works, it does not seem an ideal solution.

I think format and encoding are distinct, and enforcing format must not
enforce an encoding.So that means there must be a possibility to pass
encoding as a user choice on construction,
e.g.:TextInputFormat("your-encoding").
But I do not see that in api, so even if I extend
InputFormat/RecordReader, I will not be able to have a feature of
setEncoding() on my file format.Having that would be a good solution.

Thanks
Rekha

On 11/09/12 12:37 PM, "Joshi, Rekha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi Ajay,
>
>Try SequenceFileAsBinaryInputFormat ?
>
>
>Thanks
>Rekha
>
>On 11/09/12 11:24 AM, "Ajay Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using default inputFormat class for reading input from text files
>>but the input file has some non utf-8 characters.
>>I guess that TextInputFormat class is default inputFormat class and it
>>replaces these non utf-8 chars by "\uFFFD". If I do not want this
>>behavior and need actual char in my mapper what should be the correct
>>inputFormat class ?
>>
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ajay Srivastava
>

Rekha,

I guess that problem is that Text class uses utf-8 encoding and one can not set other encoding for this class.
I have not seen any other Text like class which supports other encoding otherwise I have written my custom input format class.

Thanks for your inputs.
Regards,
Ajay Srivastava
On 11-Sep-2012, at 1:31 PM, Joshi, Rekha wrote:

> Actually even if that works, it does not seem an ideal solution.
>
> I think format and encoding are distinct, and enforcing format must not
> enforce an encoding.So that means there must be a possibility to pass
> encoding as a user choice on construction,
> e.g.:TextInputFormat("your-encoding").
> But I do not see that in api, so even if I extend
> InputFormat/RecordReader, I will not be able to have a feature of
> setEncoding() on my file format.Having that would be a good solution.
>
> Thanks
> Rekha
>
> On 11/09/12 12:37 PM, "Joshi, Rekha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ajay,
>>
>> Try SequenceFileAsBinaryInputFormat ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rekha
>>
>> On 11/09/12 11:24 AM, "Ajay Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using default inputFormat class for reading input from text files
>>> but the input file has some non utf-8 characters.
>>> I guess that TextInputFormat class is default inputFormat class and it
>>> replaces these non utf-8 chars by "\uFFFD". If I do not want this
>>> behavior and need actual char in my mapper what should be the correct
>>> inputFormat class ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ajay Srivastava
>>
>