title: Specify UTF-8 encoding for Hadoop jobs
body: <p>In a Hadoop job I'm writing, I want UTF-8 encoded strings for my mappers/reducers. How do I specify UTF-8 as my system encoding? If I'm running code locally, I could just do <code>java -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8"</code>, but when I tried running <code>hadoop jap myjar.jar -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8"</code>, this didn't work.</p>