How to import data and apply multiline and charset UTF8 at the same time?

[HafidzZulkifli]

I'm running Spark 2.2.0 at the moment. Currently I'm facing an issue when importing data of Mexican origin, where the characters can have special characters and with multiline for certain columns.

Ideally, this is the command I'd like to run:

T_new_exp = spark.read\   
.option("charset", "ISO-8859-1")\   
.option("parserLib", "univocity")\
.option("multiLine", "true")\   
.schema(schema)\
.csv(file)

However, using the above gives me properly lined rows but without the correct charset. Instead of displaying e acute for example, I'm getting the replacement character (U+FFFD). It's only when I remove the multiline option do I get the right charset (but without the multiline issue being fix).

The only solution that I have to workaround this problem for now is to preprocess the data separately before it is loaded to databricks; that is - fix the multiline first in unix and let Databricks handle the unicode issues later.

Is there a simpler way than this?

[kali_tummala]

Did you tired encoding option ? .option("encoding", "UTF-8") .csv(inputPath)

,

did you tried utf8 option ?

.option("encoding", "UTF-8") .csv(inputPath)

[kali_tummala]

@Hafidz Zulkifli​ check my answer

[HafidzZulkifli]

@kali.tummala@gmail.com​  Tried it just now. It didn't work. There are two parts to the problem - one is handling multiline. The other is to handle differing charset.

[sean_owen]

Are you sure it's the parsing that's the issue, and not simply the display?

[Smruti]

Hi ,

Did anyone find any solution for this.

[nsuguru310]

Please make sure you are using or enforcing python 3. python 2 is default and it will have issues with encoding

[MikeDuwee]

.option("charset", "iso-8859-1")

.option("multiLine", True) .option("lineSep ",'\n\r')

[DianGermishuize]

You could also potentially use the .withColumns() function on the data frame, and use the pyspark.sql.functions.encode function to convert the characterset to the one you need.

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