Hi Mark, If you're using TextOutputFormat, it assumes you're dealing in UTF8. Decimal 254 wouldn't be valid as a standalone character in UTF8 encoding.
If you're dealing with binary (ie non-textual) data, you shouldn't use TextOutputFormat. -Todd On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > the strings I am writing in my reducer have characters that may present a > problem, such as char represented by decimal 254, which is hex FE. It seems > that instead I see hex C3, or something else is messed up. Or my > understanding is messed up :) > > Any advice? > > Thank you, > Mark >
