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How to Sqoop Teradata column with latin charset into hive

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One of the column datatype is VARCHAR(15), LATIN

connection string - jdbc:teradata://<host>/database=<db>,charset=UTF8

We notice special characters in the column imported in hive

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Your character set is incorrect on the url: It should be specified as

connection string - jdbc:teradata://<host>/database=<db>,CLIENT_CHARSET=ISO8859_1'

charset is not processed the same as "client_charset" - see this reference for all character sets for Teradata.
https://developer.teradata.com/doc/connectivity/jdbc/reference/current/jdbcug_chapter_1.html