On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Sheeba George wrote: > This must be a simple question . But somehow I am not able to get it to > work. > I have a text file which has ISO Latin characters like "Cancún". > The mapper is taking "Text" as the input value. > > public > void map(LongWritable key, Text value, OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> > output, Reporter reporter) throws IOException > > But the Latin characters are not recognized correctly and it throws a > MalInputException when I try > Text.validateUTF8(value.getBytes());
Is recoding your text file as UTF-8 an option? -- WBR, Mikhail Yakshin
