Question on utf-8 chars

[Sheeba]

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 charcters are not recognized correctly and it throws a 
MalInputException when I try

Text.validateUTF8(value.getBytes());

Any idea how to resolve this. Appreciate any help.



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Sheeba Ann George