Re: characterset problem

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, bigplanet34_at_hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi there , We have UTF-8 database. We are using OAS with UTF-8
> setting and java at front end connects to OAS socket to send
> data to be inserted into oracle Is it required to convert data
> send by Java to be converted to UTF8 ? OAS (OAS
> NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8)
No, sqlnet uses your settings to convert from java's UCS2 to the database character set of UTF8.

> When we send some particuler chinese characters into database I
> get weired results .As shown below . Does it mean 4+2 =5 ?? or
> I am doing something wrong here .
>
> select lengthb(casename), lengthb(caseName||'XX') ,
> lengthb('XX') from case where casepin=736;
>
> LENGTHB(CASENAME) LENGTHB(CASENAME||'XX') LENGTHB('XX')
> ------------------- ------------------------- -------------
> 4 5 2

I wonder if the addition of two single byte characters to a multi-byte character can confuse lengthb?

What does this query return?

select lengthb(casename), lengthb(caseName||'X') , lengthb('X') from case where casepin=736;

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