Hi Ankit, Per a discussion on the CDH user mailing list a few months ago, I don't believe this is presently possible. See this thread for more info: https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/cdh-user/browse_thread/thread/346930934093b8a2/04c4a378b14eda56
-- Aaron T. Myers Software Engineer, Cloudera On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, ankit bhatnagar <abhatna...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi > > I am facing a weird issue with the file parsing. My log files have a thorn > 'รพ' as separator. > I tried writing a test case for deserializer and kind of confused by the > fact it works fine as I pass the line to the deserializer, however when i > run it on hive the line is not split into columns and table inside hive has > thorn as it is. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Ankit >