Different CharcterSet are not recongnisable [message #401997] |
Thu, 07 May 2009 04:10 |
ind9
Messages: 65 Registered: January 2009
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Hi,
i have some of the Arabic characters in one of the table. And i am querying from the table and writing the query output to the flat file. Now the problem whenever a different charcter set is encountered then in the file is writing those characters in inverted question marks.
and then i have used convert function to convert the value into arabic character set before writing into file. but there is of no use.
Below is my database details.
select * from NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS
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PARAMETER VALUE
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NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 9.2.0.8.0
20 rows selected.
And i have a program unit as shown below
Declare
Cursor C1 Is
Select *
From Employees
Where EMpID = 100;
L_Emp Employees%Rowtype;
l_file UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
l_line VARCHAR2(2500);
Begin
Open C1;
Fetch C1
Into L_Emp;
Close C1;
L_Line := L_Emp.EmpName;
l_file := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('dir', 'sample', 'w');
IF UTL_FILE.IS_OPEN(l_file) THEN
IF l_line IS NOT NULL THEN
l_line := convert(l_line, 'AR8MSWIN1256'); --Arabic Charcter Set
UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(l_file, l_line);
End If;
End If;
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(l_file);
Exception
When Others Then
Dbms_Output.Put_Line (Substr(Sqlerrm,1,254));
End;
Kindly assist how to solve this issue.
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Re: Different CharcterSet are not recongnisable [message #402156 is a reply to message #402131] |
Thu, 07 May 2009 21:56 |
ind9
Messages: 65 Registered: January 2009
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Thanks for your response.
Quote: | Different than what? What is this new/different character set?
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Different in the sense the Arabic characters are stored in the encoded format in the table.
Actual characters for the employee name is اللغة العربيةاللغة
Whereas in the database those characters are stored like as shown below
SQL> Select EMP_Name
2 From EMP
3 Where EMpID = 100;
EMP_Name
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¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
Quote: | If Arabic characters already exist (see top line of this post), then why do they need to be converted?
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Characters in the flat file are not readable. Below are the details.
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When Convert Function is used flat file is containing data as shown below
Adam ????? ??????
If the convert function is not used then data in the flat file is
Adam ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
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I hope you are more clear with the problem. Please let me know if more details are required.
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Re: Different CharcterSet are not recongnisable [message #402158 is a reply to message #402156] |
Thu, 07 May 2009 22:44 |
dr.s.raghunathan
Messages: 540 Registered: February 2008
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is this data generated through unicode transliteration. if so placing the required font on default directory and invoking through short key may solve the problem, since it does with tamil character set. if not, i could not understand the problem and let me also wait for some more responses
yours
dr.s.raghunathan
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