topic Re: Parsing Japanese characters in Spark & Databricks in Data Engineering

Parsing Japanese characters in Spark & Databricks

RiyazAliM — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:20:20 GMT

I'm trying to read the data which has Japanese headers, might as well have Japanese data. Currently when I say header is True, I see all jumbled characters. Can any one help how can I parse these Japanese characters correctly?

Re: Parsing Japanese characters in Spark & Databricks

Avinash_Narala — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:45:52 GMT

Hi @RiyazAliM ,

You need to encode the data in that language format , i.e, if the data is in japanease then u need to encode in UTF-8

CREATE OR REPLACE TEMP VIEW japanese_data

AS SELECT * FROM

csv.`path/to/japanese_data.csv`

OPTIONS ('encoding'='UTF-8')

also you can use various libraries and tools for natural language processing (NLP) in Databricks

Re: Parsing Japanese characters in Spark & Databricks

RiyazAliM — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:12:30 GMT

Thank you, @Avinash_Narala

I definitely used the encoding options to parse the data again but this time I used an encoding called `SHIFT_JIS` to solve the problem. Appreciate the quick response.!