Hi Charles, Thanks for the interesting story!
I think, specifying the correct charset may help to solve this problem. For more details please refer DRILL-5772 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5772>. Kind regards, Volodymyr Vysotskyi On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:02 PM Charles Givre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Drill Developers, > I wanted to share an interesting development that happened yesterday. I > was teaching a class at BlackHat, and we have a worksheet that includes a > Drill demonstration using PyDrill. Basically the students are asked to > execute a query in Drill using PyDrill then visualize the results. > > Anyway, a student from Japan tried this, and was getting all kinds of > crazy errors. So I sat down and worked with him to debug. It turns out > that the period on the Japanese keyboard, maps to a different unicode > character than on US keyboards, and hence the queries throw errors. I > discovered this because when I would cut/paste a query from a text file > that I wrote, the query executed, but if we typed one in, it broke. After > digging around a bit, I found that it was the period character. > > I’m not sure that this can or should be fixed, but I wanted to let people > know about this. > > Best, > — C
