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Sean Owen updated MAHOUT-594:
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Due Date: 04/Feb/11
Fix Version/s: 0.5
Assignee: Sean Owen
Agreed, this change should be made across the board. Nothing should depend on
the platform encoding. Do you have a patch?
> FileWriter may garble non-ASCII output if the environment variable
> LANG/LC_ALL is not appropriate.
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>
> Key: MAHOUT-594
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-594
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Utils
> Affects Versions: 0.4
> Environment: RHL Linux 2.6.18
> Reporter: Shige Takeda
> Assignee: Sean Owen
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.5
>
>
> For non-ASCII output data, java.io.FileWriter should be replaced with
> java.io.OutputStreamWriter in UTF-8.
> For example, if you dump centroids of clusters using ClusterDumper, you may
> get the following output:
> {noformat}
> ...
> C-0{n=2 c=[brown:2.099, c?t:1.957, dogs:1.916, fox:0.652, jumped:2.099,
> l?zy:1.884, over:2.099, quick:2.099, red:1.916, ?:0.871, ?:0.871, ?:0.871,
> ?:0.871] r=[c?t:0.652, fox:0.652, l?zy:1.131, ?:0.871, ?:0.871, ?:0.871,
> ?:0.871]}
> Top Terms:
> quick => 2.0986123085021973
> over => 2.0986123085021973
> jumped => 2.0986123085021973
> brown => 2.0986123085021973
> c?t => 1.957078456878662
> red => 1.9162907600402832
> dogs => 1.9162907600402832
> l?zy => 1.8843144178390503
> ? => 0.8706584572792053
> ? => 0.8706584572792053
> Weight: Point:
> 1.0: P(0) = [brown:2.099, dogs:1.916, fox:2.609, jumped:2.099,
> over:2.099, quick:2.099, red:1.916, ?:2.322, ?:2.322, ?:2.322, ?:2.322]
> 1.0: P(1) = [brown:2.099, dogs:1.916, fox:2.609, jumped:2.099,
> over:2.099, quick:2.099, red:1.916, ?:2.322, ?:2.322, ?:2.322, ?:2.322]
> 1.0: P(2) = [brown:2.099, c?t:2.609, dogs:1.916, jumped:2.099,
> over:2.099, quick:2.099, red:1.916, ?:2.322, ?:2.322, ?:2.322, ?:2.322]
> ...
> {noformat}
> where "?" characters were garbled by FileWriter. NOTE: this test case is a
> tweaked version of TestClusterDumper. E.g., lazy => läzy
> The cause of this is the line in ClusterDumper.java:
> {code}
> Writer writer = this.outputFile == null ? new OutputStreamWriter(System.out)
> : new FileWriter(this.outputFile);
> {code}
> This can be around by setting the environment variables LC_ALL/LANG to
> en_US.UTF-8, but many environments have LC_ALL/LANG=C by default, and in some
> cases, you even may not have choices but C for various reasons.
> To address this issue, I would like to propose to hard code the output
> encoding to UTF-8 as follows:
> {code}
> Writer writer = this.outputFile == null ? new OutputStreamWriter(System.out)
> : new OutputStreamWriter(new FileInputStream(this.outputFile), UTF8);
> {code}
> This way, the output file encoding will not be affected by environments.
> And if this proposal is agreed, a similar fix should be applied to the
> following files:
> - ./core/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/classifier/sgd/ModelSerializer.java
> - ./core/src/test/java/org/apache/mahout/fpm/pfpgrowth/PFPGrowthTest.java
> - ./examples/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/classifier/sgd/TrainLogistic.java
> -
> ./examples/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/clustering/display/DisplaySpectralKMeans.java
> - ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/clustering/lda/LDAPrintTopics.java
> - ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/utils/SequenceFileDumper.java
> - ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/utils/clustering/ClusterDumper.java
> - ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/utils/vectors/VectorDumper.java
> - ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/utils/vectors/arff/Driver.java
> -
> ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/utils/vectors/lucene/ClusterLabels.java
> - ./utils/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/utils/vectors/lucene/Driver.java
> Hope not many folks prefer ISO-8859-1 or other 'legacy' character sets.
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