Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/505#issuecomment-41224571
These changes seem pretty reasonable to me. I'm also curious what is still
wrong with Hive?
Minor question: Do we want to make the string encoding configurable,
perhaps with "utf-8" as the default? or is utf-8 always the right answer?
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