SourabhBadhya commented on code in PR #3982:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/3982#discussion_r1094519796


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ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/generic/GenericUDFConvertCharset.java:
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+package org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.CharBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.CharacterCodingException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
+import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
+import java.nio.charset.CodingErrorAction;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Description;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDFArgumentException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDFArgumentLengthException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDFArgumentTypeException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ConstantObjectInspector;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspector;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.PrimitiveObjectInspector;
+import 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorFactory;
+import 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.PrimitiveObjectInspectorUtils;
+
+@Description(name = "convertCharset", value = "_FUNC_(str, str, str) - 
Converts the first argument from the second argument character set to the third 
argument character set", extended =

Review Comment:
   Could you please state why this UDF takes the following input. Is this 
inspired from other SQL databases? I do understand that this can be useful. But 
just wanted to know if this is already implemented elsewhere in other databases.



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