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Mike Percy commented on FLUME-1676: ----------------------------------- Talked to Suresh about this on IRC. Example would be using exec source with a tail -F command on a file that is ISO-8859 encoded. > ExecSource should provide a configurable charset > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLUME-1676 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1676 > Project: Flume > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: :~/apache-flume-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT/conf# ../bin/flume-ng > version > Flume 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT > Source code repository: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flume.git > Revision: 831a86fc5501a8624b184ea65e53749df31692b8 > Compiled by jenkins on Tue Oct 30 03:18:08 UTC 2012 > From source with checksum 98685e32b9e500a2305f538b4468faaa > Reporter: Suresh Saggar > > The character set is currently not configurable in the exec source - > http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#exec-source > File - > https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/trunk/flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/source/ExecSource.java > Can somebody please expose the ability to specify character set in the exec > source? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira