Github user javadba commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1586#issuecomment-50439423
@ueshin The length applies to any datatype - i described in a prior
comment. AFA getBytes, I am following the recommendation of @chenghao-intel :
I think the following probably what you want
// assume s1 is the string
val string = new String(s1.getBytes(), encoding)
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