[IMPALA-2717] impala-shell breaks on non-ascii characters in the resultset

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.2, Impala 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.13.0, Impala 3.1.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: impala-shell ramp-up shell
• Environment: CDH5.4.7
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Tim Armstrong
• Reporter: Marcell Szabo
• Created: 26/Nov/15 14:08
• Updated: 19/Apr/18 17:19
• Resolved: 19/Apr/18 17:19

Description

(Shell build version: Impala Shell v2.2.0-cdh5.4.7 (8b8d376) built on Thu Sep 17 02:00:38 PDT 2015)
[host:21000] > insert into sometable values ('Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép');
Query: insert into sometable values ('Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép')
Inserted 1 row(s) in 6.84s
[host:21000] > select * from sometable;
Query: select * from sometable
Unknown Exception : 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 83: ordinal not in range(128)
[Not connected] >

This is very similar to IMPALA-1130, IMPALA-489, IMPALA-738, the difference is that here the resultset contains the offending char.
With the -B option the result is printed correctly.