[IMPALA-1336] Set the shell's unix environment's locale settings to allow for UTF-8 compatibility.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: shell
• Assignee: Ishaan Joshi
• Reporter: Ishaan Joshi
• Created: 01/Oct/14 18:12
• Updated: 28/Dec/15 17:43
• Resolved: 01/Oct/14 20:14

Description

Because the impala-shell now supports printing unicode characters, the user's unix shell needs to allow for UTF-8 compatibility, as there have been cases where the impala-shell has crashed because the user's shell did not support UTF-8.
To resolve this issue, the shell environment's locale setting 'LC_CTYPE' needs to be set to "en_US.UTF-8" unless the user has specifically set this variable already.

A simple export LC_CTYPE=${LC_CTYPE:-en_US.UTF-8} in the shell's environment will suffice, as this doesn't override the user's settings.