Don't have to much experience with nls in hive. Changing locale in client linux shell doesn't affect the result. Googling also doesn't help to resolve.
Created table in Hive: create table wojewodztwa (kod STRING, nazwa STRING, miasto_woj STRING) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';
loaded data:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH ./wojewodztwa.txt OVERWRITE INTO TABLE wojewodztwa;
contents of file wojewodztwa.txt:
02,dolnośląskie,Wrocław
04,kujawsko-pomorskie,Bydgoszcz i Toruń
06,lubelskie,Lublin
08,lubuskie,Gorzów Wielkopolski i Zielona Góra
10,łódzkie,Łódź
12,małopolskie,Kraków
14,mazowieckie,Warszawa
16,opolskie,Opole
18,podkarpackie,Rzeszów
20,podlaskie,Białystok
22,pomorskie,Gdańsk
24,śląskie,Katowice
26,świętokrzyskie,Kielce
28,warmińsko-mazurskie,Olsztyn
30,wielkopolskie,Poznań
32,zachodniopomorskie,Szczecin
beeline> !connect jdbc:hive2://172.16.45.211:10001 gpadmin changeme org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver
Connecting to jdbc:hive2://172.16.45.211:10001
Connected to: Hive (version 0.11.0-gphd-2.1.1.0)
Driver: Hive (version 0.11.0-gphd-2.1.1.0)
Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ
0: jdbc:hive2://172.16.45.211:10001> select kod,nazwa from wojewodztwa order by nazwa;
+------+----------------------+
| kod | nazwa |
+------+----------------------+
| 02 | dolnośląskie |
| 04 | kujawsko-pomorskie |
| 06 | lubelskie |
| 08 | lubuskie |
| 14 | mazowieckie |
| 12 | małopolskie |
| 16 | opolskie |
| 18 | podkarpackie |
| 20 | podlaskie |
| 22 | pomorskie |
| 28 | warmińsko-mazurskie |
| 30 | wielkopolskie |
| 32 | zachodniopomorskie |
| 10 | łódzkie |
| 24 | śląskie |
| 26 | świętokrzyskie |
+------+----------------------+
16 rows selected (19,702 seconds)
and it's not correct result, all words starting with language specific characters are at the and.