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On May 7, 10:32 am, Laurenz Albe <inv..._at_spam.to.invalid> wrote:
> OracleServer <helge.ha..._at_applica.no> wrote:
> > My database (10g) has been created with database character set to
> > "Unicode standard UTF-8 AL32UTF8".
>
> > The data has been stored correctly. Used select dump(name, 1016)
> > from...
> > Query returned:
> > Len = 3 CharacterSet=AL32UTF8: e4, b8, 84
> > UTF-8 encoding of Unicode character (Traditional Chinese): ?
>
> > Can someone tell me how to select this col into a ProC VARCHAR2
> > variable? The query in my ProC code returns this a value, but the
> > lenght is equal to 1. How can I get all the 3 octets into my VARCHAR2
> > variable?
> > Does it depends on any compilation option, or the PC locale?
>
> It should depend only on the NLS_LANG environment variable.
>
> You must set it to something that supports this 'shang' character,
> like 'SIMPLIFIED CHINESE_CHINA.ZHS16GBK' or AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
>
> There is a precompiler option NLS_CHAR with which you can specify which
> host variables will be treated as multibyte variables.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Hi again.
Tried both NLS_LANG and NLS_CHAR without success. In Pro*C the select
statements returns wide character string, not octet character string.
I solved the problem by making a convert coding-function WcsToUTF8.
Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 10:24:26 CDT
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