[Pig-dev] Why the default LOAD and STORE use UTF-8? Why not use byte?

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From: paradisehit
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:52 AM
To: pig-user@incubator.apache.org; pig-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Why the default LOAD and STORE use UTF-8? Why not use byte?

Hello!
I have meet a code problem about the charset. I use
Hadoop to store the log data, and my log data is not coded in
UTF-8, for example GBK in china. If I use the PigStorage() to
process my data, the data will be treated as UTF-8, then, I
use my program to process the UTF-8 data, it can also run,
but the result will be not right.
And can we use the pig LOAD and STORE like Hadoop, not
change the orignal data charset, store it as it was! Any one
can help me? Or tell me why use the default UTF8?