[HIVE-3355] Special characters (such as 'é') displayed as '?' in Hive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Labels: '?' 'é') (such Hive Special as characters displayed in
• Tags: Special characters (such as 'é') displayed as '?' in Hive
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anand Balaraman
• Created: 09/Aug/12 09:15
• Updated: 02/Oct/12 03:19
• Resolved: 02/Oct/12 03:19

Description

I am facing an issue while viewing special characters (such as é) using Hive.
If I view the file in HDFS (using hadoop fs -cat command), it is displayed correctly as ’é’, but when I select the data using Hive, this character alone gets replaced by a question mark.