METAMODEL-250: Added support for EBCDIC files

Closes #103
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f0264c6..c0b90cc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
  * [METAMODEL-1099] - Created a new DataContextFactory SPI and a extensible registry of implementations based on ServiceLoader.
  * [METAMODEL-1099] - Implemented DataContextFactory SPI for connectors: JDBC, CSV, ElasticSearch
+ * [METAMODEL-250] - Added support for EBCDIC files (part of 'fixedwidth' module).
  * [METAMODEL-1103] - Fixed a bug pertaining to anchoring of wildcards in LIKE operands.
  * [METAMODEL-1088] - Add support for aliases in MongoDB.
  * [METAMODEL-1086] - Fixed encoding issue when CsvDataContext is instantiated with InputStream.
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EbcdicConfiguration.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EbcdicConfiguration.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..389a4f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EbcdicConfiguration.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
+
+/**
+ * Special fixed-width configuration for EBCDIC files. 
+ */
+public final class EbcdicConfiguration extends FixedWidthConfiguration {
+
+    private final boolean _skipEbcdicHeader;
+    private final boolean _eolPresent;
+
+    public EbcdicConfiguration(int columnNameLineNumber, String encoding, int fixedValueWidth,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth, boolean skipEbcdicHeader, boolean eolPresent) {
+        super(columnNameLineNumber, encoding, fixedValueWidth, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
+        _skipEbcdicHeader = skipEbcdicHeader;
+        _eolPresent = eolPresent;
+    }
+
+    public EbcdicConfiguration(int columnNameLineNumber, String encoding, int[] valueWidths,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth, boolean skipEbcdicHeader, boolean eolPresent) {
+        super(columnNameLineNumber, null, encoding, valueWidths, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
+        _skipEbcdicHeader = skipEbcdicHeader;
+        _eolPresent = eolPresent;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determines if the input file contains a header that should be skipped before reading records data.
+     *
+     * @return a boolean indicating whether or not to skip EBCDIC header.
+     */
+    public boolean isSkipEbcdicHeader() {
+        return _skipEbcdicHeader;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determines if the input file contains new line characters.
+     *
+     * @return a boolean indicating whether or not the input contains new line characters.
+     */
+    public boolean isEolPresent() {
+        return _eolPresent;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EbcdicReader.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EbcdicReader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7639fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EbcdicReader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
+
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Reader capable of separating values based on a fixed width setting.
+ */
+class EbcdicReader extends FixedWidthReader {
+
+    private final boolean _skipEbcdicHeader;
+    private final boolean _eolPresent;
+    private boolean _headerSkipped;
+    
+    public EbcdicReader(BufferedInputStream stream, String charsetName, int[] valueWidths,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth, boolean skipEbcdicHeader, boolean eolPresent) {
+        super(stream, charsetName, valueWidths, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
+        _skipEbcdicHeader = skipEbcdicHeader;
+        _eolPresent = eolPresent;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void beforeReadLine() {
+        if (shouldSkipHeader()) {
+            try {
+                skipHeader();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("A problem occurred while skipping the input stream. ", e); 
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean shouldSkipHeader() {
+        return (_skipEbcdicHeader && !_headerSkipped);
+    }
+
+    private void skipHeader() throws IOException {
+        _headerSkipped = true;
+        _stream.skip(_expectedLineLength);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected String readSingleRecordData() throws IOException {
+        if (_eolPresent) {
+            return super.readSingleRecordData();
+        } else {
+            byte[] buffer = new byte[_expectedLineLength];
+            int bytesRead = _stream.read(buffer, 0, _expectedLineLength);
+
+            if (bytesRead < 0) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            return new String(buffer, _charsetName);
+        } 
+    }
+}
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthColumnSpec.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthColumnSpec.java
index 65ec219..dedfbcd 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthColumnSpec.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthColumnSpec.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  * Represents the specification of a single column for a

  * {@link FixedWidthDataContext}.

  */

-public final class FixedWidthColumnSpec implements HasName {

+final class FixedWidthColumnSpec implements HasName {

 

     private final String name;

     private final int width;

diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfiguration.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfiguration.java
index 2b2cae5..c53ff16 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfiguration.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfiguration.java
@@ -31,32 +31,29 @@
 import org.apache.metamodel.util.HasNameMapper;

 

 /**

- * Configuration of metadata about a fixed width values datacontext.

+ * Configuration of metadata about a fixed width values data context.

  */

-public final class FixedWidthConfiguration extends BaseObject implements

-		Serializable {

+public class FixedWidthConfiguration extends BaseObject implements Serializable {

 

-	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

 

-	public static final int NO_COLUMN_NAME_LINE = 0;

-	public static final int DEFAULT_COLUMN_NAME_LINE = 1;

+    public static final int NO_COLUMN_NAME_LINE = 0;

+    public static final int DEFAULT_COLUMN_NAME_LINE = 1;

 

-	private final String encoding;

-	private final int fixedValueWidth;

-	private final int[] valueWidths;

-	private final int columnNameLineNumber;

-	private final boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth;

-	private final ColumnNamingStrategy columnNamingStrategy;

+    private final String encoding;

+    private final int fixedValueWidth;

+    private final int[] valueWidths;

+    private final int columnNameLineNumber;

+    private final boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth;

+    private final ColumnNamingStrategy columnNamingStrategy;

 

-	public FixedWidthConfiguration(int fixedValueWidth) {

-		this(DEFAULT_COLUMN_NAME_LINE, FileHelper.DEFAULT_ENCODING,

-				fixedValueWidth);

-	}

+    public FixedWidthConfiguration(int fixedValueWidth) {

+        this(DEFAULT_COLUMN_NAME_LINE, FileHelper.DEFAULT_ENCODING, fixedValueWidth);

+    }

 

-	public FixedWidthConfiguration(int[] valueWidth) {

-		this(DEFAULT_COLUMN_NAME_LINE, FileHelper.DEFAULT_ENCODING, valueWidth,

-				false);

-	}

+    public FixedWidthConfiguration(int[] valueWidth) {

+        this(DEFAULT_COLUMN_NAME_LINE, FileHelper.DEFAULT_ENCODING, valueWidth, false);

+    }

 

     public FixedWidthConfiguration(int columnNameLineNumber, String encoding, int fixedValueWidth) {

         this(columnNameLineNumber, encoding, fixedValueWidth, false);

@@ -72,11 +69,11 @@
         this.valueWidths = new int[0];

     }

 

-    public FixedWidthConfiguration(int columnNameLineNumber, String encoding,

-            int[] valueWidths, boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {

+    public FixedWidthConfiguration(int columnNameLineNumber, String encoding, int[] valueWidths, 

+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {

         this(columnNameLineNumber, null, encoding, valueWidths, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);

     }

-    

+

     public FixedWidthConfiguration(int columnNameLineNumber, ColumnNamingStrategy columnNamingStrategy, String encoding,

             int[] valueWidths, boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {

         this.encoding = encoding;

@@ -86,7 +83,7 @@
         this.columnNamingStrategy = columnNamingStrategy;

         this.valueWidths = valueWidths;

     }

-    

+

     public FixedWidthConfiguration(String encoding, List<FixedWidthColumnSpec> columnSpecs) {

         this(encoding, columnSpecs, false);

     }

@@ -106,84 +103,84 @@
     }

 

     /**

-	 * The line number (1 based) from which to get the names of the columns.

-	 * 

-	 * @return an int representing the line number of the column headers/names.

-	 */

-	public int getColumnNameLineNumber() {

-		return columnNameLineNumber;

-	}

-	

-	/**

-	 * Gets a {@link ColumnNamingStrategy} to use if needed.

-	 * @return

-	 */

-	public ColumnNamingStrategy getColumnNamingStrategy() {

-	    if (columnNamingStrategy == null) {

-	        return ColumnNamingStrategies.defaultStrategy();

-	    }

+     * The line number (1 based) from which to get the names of the columns.

+     *

+     * @return an int representing the line number of the column headers/names.

+     */

+    public int getColumnNameLineNumber() {

+        return columnNameLineNumber;

+    }

+

+    /**

+     * Gets a {@link ColumnNamingStrategy} to use if needed.

+     * @return column naming strategy

+     */

+    public ColumnNamingStrategy getColumnNamingStrategy() {

+        if (columnNamingStrategy == null) {

+            return ColumnNamingStrategies.defaultStrategy();

+        }

         return columnNamingStrategy;

     }

 

-	/**

-	 * Gets the file encoding to use for reading the file.

-	 * 

-	 * @return the text encoding to use for reading the file.

-	 */

-	public String getEncoding() {

-		return encoding;

-	}

+    /**

+     * Gets the file encoding to use for reading the file.

+     *

+     * @return the text encoding to use for reading the file.

+     */

+    public String getEncoding() {

+        return encoding;

+    }

 

-	/**

-	 * Gets the width of each value within the fixed width value file.

-	 * 

-	 * @return the fixed width to use when parsing the file.

-	 */

-	public int getFixedValueWidth() {

-		return fixedValueWidth;

-	}

+    /**

+     * Gets the width of each value within the fixed width value file.

+     *

+     * @return the fixed width to use when parsing the file.

+     */

+    public int getFixedValueWidth() {

+        return fixedValueWidth;

+    }

 

-	public int[] getValueWidths() {

-		return valueWidths;

-	}

+    public int[] getValueWidths() {

+        return valueWidths;

+    }

 

-	/**

-	 * Determines if the {@link DataSet#next()} should throw an exception in

-	 * case of inconsistent line width in the fixed width value file.

-	 * 

-	 * @return a boolean indicating whether or not to fail on inconsistent line

-	 *         widths.

-	 */

-	public boolean isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth() {

-		return failOnInconsistentLineWidth;

-	}

+    /**

+     * Determines if the {@link DataSet#next()} should throw an exception in

+     * case of inconsistent line width in the fixed width value file.

+     *

+     * @return a boolean indicating whether or not to fail on inconsistent line

+     *         widths.

+     */

+    public boolean isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth() {

+        return failOnInconsistentLineWidth;

+    }

 

-	@Override

-	protected void decorateIdentity(List<Object> identifiers) {

-		identifiers.add(columnNameLineNumber);

-		identifiers.add(encoding);

-		identifiers.add(fixedValueWidth);

-		identifiers.add(valueWidths);

-		identifiers.add(failOnInconsistentLineWidth);

-	}

+    @Override

+    protected void decorateIdentity(List<Object> identifiers) {

+        identifiers.add(columnNameLineNumber);

+        identifiers.add(encoding);

+        identifiers.add(fixedValueWidth);

+        identifiers.add(valueWidths);

+        identifiers.add(failOnInconsistentLineWidth);

+    }

 

-	@Override

-	public String toString() {

-		return "FixedWidthConfiguration[encoding=" + encoding

-				+ ", fixedValueWidth=" + fixedValueWidth + ", valueWidths="

-				+ Arrays.toString(valueWidths) + ", columnNameLineNumber="

-				+ columnNameLineNumber + ", failOnInconsistentLineWidth="

-				+ failOnInconsistentLineWidth + "]";

-	}

+    @Override

+    public String toString() {

+        return "FixedWidthConfiguration[encoding=" + encoding

+                + ", fixedValueWidth=" + fixedValueWidth + ", valueWidths="

+                + Arrays.toString(valueWidths) + ", columnNameLineNumber="

+                + columnNameLineNumber + ", failOnInconsistentLineWidth="

+                + failOnInconsistentLineWidth + "]";

+    }

 

-	public boolean isConstantValueWidth() {

-		return fixedValueWidth != -1;

-	}

+    public boolean isConstantValueWidth() {

+        return fixedValueWidth != -1;

+    }

 

-	public int getValueWidth(int columnIndex) {

-		if (isConstantValueWidth()) {

-			return fixedValueWidth;

-		}

-		return valueWidths[columnIndex];

-	}

+    public int getValueWidth(int columnIndex) {

+        if (isConstantValueWidth()) {

+            return fixedValueWidth;

+        }

+        return valueWidths[columnIndex];

+    }

 }

diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationReader.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationReader.java
index 9154e5e..264287f 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationReader.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationReader.java
@@ -60,10 +60,9 @@
      * "http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/etlug/67323/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0h03yig7fp1qan1arghp3lwjqi6.htm">

      * described here</a>.

      * 

-     * @param encoding

-     * @param resource

-     *            the format file resource

-     * @param failOnInconsistentLineWidth

+     * @param encoding the format file encoding

+     * @param resource the format file resource 

+     * @param failOnInconsistentLineWidth flag specifying whether inconsistent line should stop processing or not

      * @return a {@link FixedWidthConfiguration} object to use

      */

     public FixedWidthConfiguration readFromSasFormatFile(String encoding, Resource resource,

@@ -88,13 +87,11 @@
 

     /**

      * Reads a {@link FixedWidthConfiguration} based on a SAS INPUT declaration.

-     * The reader method also optionally will look for a LABEL defintion for

-     * column naming.

+     * The reader method also optionally will look for a LABEL definition for column naming.

      * 

-     * @param encoding

-     * @param resource

-     *            the format file resource

-     * @param failOnInconsistentLineWidth

+     * @param encoding the format file encoding

+     * @param resource the format file resource

+     * @param failOnInconsistentLineWidth flag specifying whether inconsistent line should stop processing or not

      * @return a {@link FixedWidthConfiguration} object to use

      */

     public FixedWidthConfiguration readFromSasInputDefinition(String encoding, Resource resource,

@@ -176,5 +173,4 @@
 

         return new FixedWidthConfiguration(encoding, columnSpecs, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);

     }

-

 }

diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContext.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContext.java
index d28a0b2..027cdab 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContext.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContext.java
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
  */
 package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
 
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.Reader;
 
 import org.apache.metamodel.MetaModelException;
 import org.apache.metamodel.QueryPostprocessDataContext;
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
     /**
      * Gets the resource being read
      * 
-     * @return
+     * @return a {@link Resource} object
      */
     public Resource getResource() {
         return _resource;
@@ -184,16 +184,23 @@
 
     private FixedWidthReader createReader() {
         final InputStream inputStream = _resource.read();
-        final Reader fileReader = FileHelper.getReader(inputStream, _configuration.getEncoding());
         final FixedWidthReader reader;
-        if (_configuration.isConstantValueWidth()) {
-            reader = new FixedWidthReader(fileReader, _configuration.getFixedValueWidth(), _configuration
-                    .isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth());
+        
+        if (_configuration instanceof EbcdicConfiguration) {
+            reader = new EbcdicReader((BufferedInputStream) inputStream, _configuration.getEncoding(),
+                    _configuration.getValueWidths(), _configuration.isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth(), 
+                    ((EbcdicConfiguration) _configuration).isSkipEbcdicHeader(), 
+                    ((EbcdicConfiguration) _configuration).isEolPresent());
         } else {
-            reader = new FixedWidthReader(fileReader, _configuration.getValueWidths(), _configuration
-                    .isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth());
+            if (_configuration.isConstantValueWidth()) {
+                reader = new FixedWidthReader(inputStream, _configuration.getEncoding(),
+                        _configuration.getFixedValueWidth(), _configuration.isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth());
+            } else {
+                reader = new FixedWidthReader(inputStream, _configuration.getEncoding(), 
+                        _configuration.getValueWidths(), _configuration.isFailOnInconsistentLineWidth());
+            }
         }
+
         return reader;
     }
-
 }
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataSet.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataSet.java
index 44ce808..4f78bab 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataSet.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataSet.java
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@
 			if (columnNumber < stringValues.length) {
 				rowValues[i] = stringValues[columnNumber];
 			} else {
-				// Ticket #125: Missing values should be enterpreted as
-				// null.
+				// Ticket #125: Missing values should be interpreted as null.
 				rowValues[i] = null;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReader.java b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReader.java
index d7a18cf..da17ff1 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReader.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/main/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReader.java
@@ -18,78 +18,235 @@
  */
 package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
 
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.text.CharacterIterator;
+import java.text.StringCharacterIterator;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
 
 /**
  * Reader capable of separating values based on a fixed width setting.
  */
-final public class FixedWidthReader implements Closeable {
+class FixedWidthReader implements Closeable {
+    private static final int END_OF_STREAM = -1;
+    private static final int LINE_FEED = '\n';
+    private static final int CARRIAGE_RETURN = '\r';
+    
+    protected final String _charsetName;
+    private final int _fixedValueWidth;
+    private final int[] _valueWidths;
+    private int _valueIndex = 0;
+    private final boolean _failOnInconsistentLineWidth;
+    private final boolean _constantWidth;
+    private volatile int _rowNumber;
+    protected final BufferedInputStream _stream;
+    protected final int _expectedLineLength;
 
-	private final BufferedReader _reader;
-	private final FixedWidthLineParser _parser; 
+    public FixedWidthReader(InputStream stream, String charsetName, int fixedValueWidth,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
+        this(new BufferedInputStream(stream), charsetName, fixedValueWidth, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
+    }
 
-	public FixedWidthReader(Reader reader, int fixedValueWidth,
-			boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
-		this(new BufferedReader(reader), fixedValueWidth,
-				failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
-	}
+    private FixedWidthReader(BufferedInputStream stream, String charsetName, int fixedValueWidth,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
+        _stream = stream;
+        _charsetName = charsetName;
+        _fixedValueWidth = fixedValueWidth;
+        _failOnInconsistentLineWidth = failOnInconsistentLineWidth;
+        _rowNumber = 0;
+        _valueWidths = null;
+        _constantWidth = true;
+        _expectedLineLength = -1;
+    }
 
-	public FixedWidthReader(BufferedReader reader, int fixedValueWidth,
-			boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
-		_reader = reader;
-        final FixedWidthConfiguration fixedWidthConfiguration = new FixedWidthConfiguration(
-                FixedWidthConfiguration.NO_COLUMN_NAME_LINE, null, fixedValueWidth, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
-        _parser = new FixedWidthLineParser(fixedWidthConfiguration, -1, 0);
-	}
+    public FixedWidthReader(InputStream stream, String charsetName, int[] valueWidths,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
+        this(new BufferedInputStream(stream), charsetName, valueWidths, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
+    }
 
-	public FixedWidthReader(Reader reader, int[] valueWidths,
-			boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
-		this(new BufferedReader(reader), valueWidths,
-				failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
-	}
+    FixedWidthReader(BufferedInputStream stream, String charsetName, int[] valueWidths,
+            boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
+        _stream = stream;
+        _charsetName = charsetName;
+        _fixedValueWidth = -1;
+        _valueWidths = valueWidths;
+        _failOnInconsistentLineWidth = failOnInconsistentLineWidth;
+        _rowNumber = 0;
+        _constantWidth = false;
+        int expectedLineLength = 0;
 
-	public FixedWidthReader(BufferedReader reader, int[] valueWidths,
-			boolean failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
-		_reader = reader;
-		int fixedValueWidth = -1;
-		int expectedLineLength = 0;
-		if (fixedValueWidth == -1) {
-			for (int i = 0; i < valueWidths.length; i++) {
-				expectedLineLength += valueWidths[i];
-			}
-		}
-        final FixedWidthConfiguration fixedWidthConfiguration = new FixedWidthConfiguration(
-                FixedWidthConfiguration.NO_COLUMN_NAME_LINE, null, valueWidths, failOnInconsistentLineWidth);
-        _parser = new FixedWidthLineParser(fixedWidthConfiguration, expectedLineLength, 0);
-	}
+        for (final int _valueWidth : _valueWidths) {
+            expectedLineLength += _valueWidth;
+        }
 
-	
-	/***
-	 * Reads the next line in the file.
-	 * 
-	 * @return an array of values in the next line, or null if the end of the
-	 *         file has been reached.
-	 * 
-	 * @throws IllegalStateException
-	 *             if an exception occurs while reading the file.
-	 */
-	public String[] readLine() throws IllegalStateException {
-        String line;
+        _expectedLineLength = expectedLineLength;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This reads and returns the next record from the file. Usually, it is a line but in case the new line characters
+     * are not present, the length of the content depends on the column-widths setting.
+     *
+     * @return an array of values in the next line, or null if the end of the file has been reached.
+     * @throws IllegalStateException if an exception occurs while reading the file.
+     */
+    public String[] readLine() throws IllegalStateException {
         try {
-            line = _reader.readLine();
-            return _parser.parseLine(line);
+            beforeReadLine();
+            _rowNumber++;
+            return getValues();
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new IllegalStateException(e);
         }
-	}
-	
+    }
 
-	@Override
-	public void close() throws IOException {
-		_reader.close();
-	}
+    /**
+     * Empty hook that enables special behavior in sub-classed readers (by overriding this method). 
+     */
+    protected void beforeReadLine() {
+        return;
+    }
 
+    private String[] getValues() throws IOException {
+        final List<String> values = new ArrayList<>();
+        final String singleRecordData = readSingleRecordData();
+
+        if (singleRecordData == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        processSingleRecordData(singleRecordData, values);
+        String[] result = values.toArray(new String[values.size()]);
+
+        if (!_failOnInconsistentLineWidth && !_constantWidth) {
+            result = correctResult(result);
+        }
+
+        validateConsistentValue(singleRecordData, result, values.size());
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    private void validateConsistentValue(String recordData, String[] result, int valuesSize) {
+        if (!_failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        InconsistentValueWidthException inconsistentValueException = null;
+
+        if (_constantWidth) {
+            if (recordData.length() % _fixedValueWidth != 0) {
+                inconsistentValueException = new InconsistentValueWidthException(result, recordData, _rowNumber);
+            }
+        } else if (result.length != valuesSize || recordData.length() != _expectedLineLength) {
+            inconsistentValueException = new InconsistentValueWidthException(result, recordData, _rowNumber);
+        }
+
+        if (inconsistentValueException != null) {
+            throw inconsistentValueException;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void processSingleRecordData(final String singleRecordData, final List<String> values) {
+        StringBuilder nextValue = new StringBuilder();
+        final CharacterIterator it = new StringCharacterIterator(singleRecordData);
+        _valueIndex = 0;
+
+        for (char c = it.first(); c != CharacterIterator.DONE; c = it.next()) {
+            processCharacter(c, nextValue, values, singleRecordData);
+        }
+
+        if (nextValue.length() > 0) {
+            addNewValueIfAppropriate(values, nextValue);
+        }
+    }
+
+    String readSingleRecordData() throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder line = new StringBuilder();
+        int ch;
+
+        for (ch = _stream.read(); !isEndingCharacter(ch); ch = _stream.read()) {
+            line.append((char) ch);
+        }
+
+        if (ch == CARRIAGE_RETURN) {
+            readLineFeedIfFollows();
+        }
+
+        return (line.length()) > 0 ? line.toString() : null;
+    }
+    
+    private void readLineFeedIfFollows() throws IOException {
+        _stream.mark(1);
+
+        if (_stream.read() != LINE_FEED) {
+            _stream.reset();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean isEndingCharacter(int ch) {
+        return (ch == CARRIAGE_RETURN || ch == LINE_FEED || ch == END_OF_STREAM);
+    }
+    
+    private void processCharacter(char c, StringBuilder nextValue, List<String> values, String recordData) {
+        nextValue.append(c);
+        final int valueWidth = getValueWidth(values, recordData);
+
+        if (nextValue.length() == valueWidth) {
+            addNewValueIfAppropriate(values, nextValue);
+            nextValue.setLength(0); // clear the buffer
+
+            if (_valueWidths != null) {
+                _valueIndex = (_valueIndex + 1) % _valueWidths.length;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private int getValueWidth(List<String> values, String recordData) {
+        if (_constantWidth) {
+            return _fixedValueWidth;
+        } else {
+            if (_valueIndex >= _valueWidths.length) {
+                if (_failOnInconsistentLineWidth) {
+                    String[] result = values.toArray(new String[values.size()]);
+                    throw new InconsistentValueWidthException(result, recordData, _rowNumber + 1);
+                } else {
+                    return -1; // silently ignore the inconsistency
+                }
+            }
+
+            return _valueWidths[_valueIndex];
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void addNewValueIfAppropriate(List<String> values, StringBuilder nextValue) {
+        if (_valueWidths != null) {
+            if (values.size() < _valueWidths.length) {
+                values.add(nextValue.toString().trim());
+            }
+        } else {
+            values.add(nextValue.toString().trim());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String[] correctResult(String[] result) {
+        if (result.length != _valueWidths.length) {
+            String[] correctedResult = new String[_valueWidths.length];
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < result.length && i < _valueWidths.length; i++) {
+                correctedResult[i] = result[i];
+            }
+
+            result = correctedResult;
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        _stream.close();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EBCDICTest.java b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EBCDICTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea19960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/EBCDICTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.apache.metamodel.data.DataSet;
+import org.apache.metamodel.schema.Schema;
+import org.apache.metamodel.schema.Table;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class EBCDICTest {
+    private static final int[] COLUMN_WIDTHS = new int[] { 2, 7, 10, 10 };
+    private static final long EXPECTED_ROWS_COUNT = 49; // 50 lines, 1. is a header
+    private static final String ENCODING = "IBM500";
+    private static final String[] EXPECTED_ROWS = new String[] {
+            "Row[values=[01, name-01, surname-01, address-01]]",
+            "Row[values=[02, name-02, surname-02, address-02]]",
+            "Row[values=[03, name-03, surname-03, address-03]]",
+    };
+    private final FixedWidthDataContext _context;
+    private final Table _table;
+
+    public EBCDICTest() {
+        String fileName = "fixed-width-2-7-10-10.ebc";
+        FixedWidthConfiguration configuration = new EbcdicConfiguration(FixedWidthConfiguration.NO_COLUMN_NAME_LINE,
+                ENCODING, COLUMN_WIDTHS, false, true, false);
+        _context = new FixedWidthDataContext(new File("src/test/resources/" + fileName), configuration);
+        Schema schema = _context.getDefaultSchema();
+        _table = schema.getTableByName(fileName);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRowsCount() throws Exception {
+        long rows = 0;
+
+        try (final DataSet dataSet = _context.query().from(_table).selectCount().execute()) {
+            if (dataSet.next()) {
+                Object[] values = dataSet.getRow().getValues();
+                rows = (long) values[0];
+            }
+        }
+
+        assertEquals(EXPECTED_ROWS_COUNT, rows);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testFirstRows() throws Exception {
+        int limit = EXPECTED_ROWS.length;
+        int i = 0;
+
+        try (final DataSet dataSet = _context.query().from(_table).selectAll().limit(limit).execute()) {
+            while (dataSet.next()) {
+                assertEquals(EXPECTED_ROWS[i], dataSet.getRow().toString());
+                i++;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationTest.java b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationTest.java
index 8225be0..f03d633 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationTest.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthConfigurationTest.java
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
  */
 package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
 
-import org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth.FixedWidthConfiguration;
-
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 
 public class FixedWidthConfigurationTest extends TestCase {
@@ -31,14 +29,11 @@
 	}
 
 	public void testEquals() throws Exception {
-		FixedWidthConfiguration conf1 = new FixedWidthConfiguration(1, "UTF8",
-				10, true);
-		FixedWidthConfiguration conf2 = new FixedWidthConfiguration(1, "UTF8",
-				10, true);
+		FixedWidthConfiguration conf1 = new FixedWidthConfiguration(1, "UTF8", 10, true);
+		FixedWidthConfiguration conf2 = new FixedWidthConfiguration(1, "UTF8", 10, true);
 		assertEquals(conf1, conf2);
 
-		FixedWidthConfiguration conf3 = new FixedWidthConfiguration(1, "UTF8",
-				10, false);
+		FixedWidthConfiguration conf3 = new FixedWidthConfiguration(1, "UTF8", 10, false);
 		assertFalse(conf1.equals(conf3));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContextTest.java b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContextTest.java
index 2ac3680..7962cf6 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContextTest.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthDataContextTest.java
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@
 
 import org.apache.metamodel.DataContext;
 import org.apache.metamodel.data.DataSet;
-import org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth.FixedWidthConfiguration;
-import org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth.FixedWidthDataContext;
-import org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth.InconsistentValueWidthException;
 import org.apache.metamodel.query.Query;
 import org.apache.metamodel.schema.Schema;
 import org.apache.metamodel.schema.Table;
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReaderTest.java b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReaderTest.java
index 4d11f0e..8f40c1d 100644
--- a/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReaderTest.java
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/test/java/org/apache/metamodel/fixedwidth/FixedWidthReaderTest.java
@@ -18,11 +18,9 @@
  */
 package org.apache.metamodel.fixedwidth;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
@@ -30,7 +28,10 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
 public class FixedWidthReaderTest {
+    private static final String CHARSET = "UTF-8";
 
     @Rule
     public final ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();
@@ -38,9 +39,9 @@
     @Test
     public void testBufferedReader1() throws IOException {
         final File file = new File("src/test/resources/example_simple1.txt");
-        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
+        final BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
         int[] widths = new int[] { 8, 9 };
-        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(reader, widths, false)) {
+        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(stream, CHARSET, widths, false)) {
             final String[] line1 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
             assertEquals("[greeting, greeter]", Arrays.asList(line1).toString());
             final String[] line2 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
@@ -53,9 +54,9 @@
     @Test
     public void testBufferedReader2() throws IOException {
         final File file = new File("src/test/resources/example_simple2.txt");
-        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
+        final BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
         int[] widths = new int[] {1, 8, 9 };
-        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(reader, widths, false)) {
+        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(stream, CHARSET, widths, false)) {
             final String[] line1 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
             assertEquals("[i, greeting, greeter]", Arrays.asList(line1).toString());
             final String[] line2 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
@@ -68,8 +69,8 @@
     @Test
     public void testBufferedReader3() throws IOException {
         final File file = new File("src/test/resources/example_simple3.txt");
-        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
-        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(reader, 5, false)) {
+        final BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
+        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(stream, CHARSET, 5, false)) {
             final String[] line1 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
             assertEquals("[hello]", Arrays.asList(line1).toString());
             final String[] line2 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
@@ -84,8 +85,8 @@
     @Test
     public void testBufferedReaderFailOnInconsistentRows() throws IOException {
         final File file = new File("src/test/resources/example_simple3.txt");
-        final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
-        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(reader, 5, true)) {
+        final BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
+        try (final FixedWidthReader fixedWidthReader = new FixedWidthReader(stream, CHARSET, 5, true)) {
             final String[] line1 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
             assertEquals("[hello]", Arrays.asList(line1).toString());
             final String[] line2 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
@@ -98,6 +99,4 @@
             final String[] line4 = fixedWidthReader.readLine();
         }
     }
-
-   
 }
diff --git a/fixedwidth/src/test/resources/fixed-width-2-7-10-10.ebc b/fixedwidth/src/test/resources/fixed-width-2-7-10-10.ebc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09fcc70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixedwidth/src/test/resources/fixed-width-2-7-10-10.ebc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
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