Looks like the issue is tracked from HIVE-3245. I think we need to support adding encoding parameter as part of jdbc url similar to mysql jdbc's useUnicode/characterEncoding flags.
I can take a look at it if nobody else has. For now, I think you can manually encode the result value from jdbc. Thanks, Szehon On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:43 PM, ch huang <justlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi,maillist: > we use hive to store UTF8 chinese character ,but query through > hive jdbc ,it become some unreadable characters,it's normal to use hive > shell.why? it's a bug in hive jdbc?how can i solve this? >