What version are you using? According to ACCUMULO-241, you should be able to quote any UTF-8 characters for visibility using the Java API. The shell will likely have parsing issues, however.
[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-241 On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:56 PM, John Vines <vi...@apache.org> wrote: > The java API is the most feature rich way of interfacing with Accumulo. > The shell is a utility built on it, but occasionally issues get hit with > parsing user input. It seems you have hit one of these cases. You may be > able to quote your fields, etc. > > However, it is more important to note that the visibilities are very > strict for the character set allowed. Only a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and a few > additional characters are allowed (- and _ if I remember correctly). So > unicode won't work, and you'd get an error indicating that if you could get > the shell to accept them. > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Celeste Hofer <celesteho...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to add column visibility (a label) to cells containing >> Unicode values, using an Accumulo shell. >> However, I receive this >> ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Expected 4 arguments. There >> was 6. >> >> >> Is the use of the Accumulo shell supported for applying column visibility >> when the value is Unicode? >> >> If it is supported, please provide a simple example, or more information. >> >> If it is not supported via the Accumulo shell, is there another supported >> approach, for example, using the Java API? >> >> Thanks, >> Celeste H >> > >
