[ARROW-9106] [C++] Add C++ foundation to ease file transcoding

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25219
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 11/Jun/20 15:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:04
• Resolved: 25/Jun/20 14:24

Description

In some situations (e.g. reading a Windows-produced CSV file), the user might transcode data before ingesting it into Arrow. Rather than build transcoding in C++ (which would require a library of encodings), we could delegate it to bindings as needed, by providing a generic InputStream facility.

Issue Links

• supercedes: ARROW-7251 [Python] Open CSVs with different encodings
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7456