hi,
thankx for responding.....
but when u mention change in the registry..
could u elaborate about where exactly in reg and what changes are required
my registry setting shows NLS = American_English.UTF8.
is this the setting u indicated..or something to so with the charset entry :
autodetect and autodetect_all (in classid...Mime>database>charset..)
pls do elaborate....
regards,
Sandeep
----- Original Message -----
From: Kedar Moghe <kmoghe@quark.com.sg>
To: 'Sandeep Krishna' <sandeepkrishna@noida.hcltech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: RE: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)
Sandeep,
I think you need to set the registry charset to UTF8 where database is
installed. We were was getting the same problem when we use to send UTF-8
strings to oracle database after conversion from Shift-JIS to UTF8. That
time also the byte sequence of the retrieved string is getting changed and
some of the bytes are getting replaced with BF.
Regards,
Kedar
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandeep Krishna [mailto:sandeepkrishna@noida.hcltech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:36 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)
hi....
actually i have been trying to use ASPs (UTF-8 encoding..) to write unicode
cahracters to an Oracle DB table (varchar2 field)... and then retrieve them
back..
(i used UTF-8 encoding for both writing to the database and also for
retriving and displaying..)
there were some amazing observations...
* each unicode character was taking 7 bytes in the database. (instead of
expected 2 or 3...)
* some unicode characters(or rather code points.) like' F95F' when encoded
in UTF-8 was being encoded as EF A5 BF, when it should have been encoded as
EF A5 9F.. in fact many unicode charcters whose encoded form had to had a
byte in the range (80..9F) were being somehow changed to BF ... thus
resulting in incorrect retrieval....
I was unable to find the reasons for these strange occurrences....
Pls suggest what could be the causes for these......
regards,
Sandeep.
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