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Re: Possible characterset issues w/ datapump

From: Tony van Lingen <tony.vanlingen_at_epa.qld.gov.au>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:37:10 +1000
Message-ID: <45B40736.7030409@epa.qld.gov.au>


*Datapump would use the database character set I'd suppose, as it is really the database writing out the file, just as with database links and utl_file. One note explaining all this is Note:158577.1.

The root of the problem would be that your client inserts and retrieves data using it's own character set, but datapump uses US7ASCII to interpret the data and consequently the extended characters (which don't exists in 7-bit ASCII) get mangled. I don't think there's a workaround, except re-entering the extended characters after migration...

Cheers,
Tony

*
Phil Singer wrote:
> Don Seiler wrote:
>> We're having an issue where a "ú" character in a varchar2 is being
>> corrupted after being funnelled through datapump. I'm reluctant to
>> ...
>
> Three things immediately pop out:
>
> 1) Your SOURCE characterset is US7ASCII. Your problem character does
> not exist in that characterset. As the DEST characterset is
> different, a characterset conversion is definitely expected.
>
> 2) Normally, it is the _client_ which determines the characterset to
> use (not the database instance). Data pump complicates matters.
>
> 3) If all else fails, investigate the ftp.
>
> But if I had a dollar for each character ruined when someone did a
> client install and forgot to change the client's character set from
> US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1 I wouldn't be dreading the upcoming layoffs
> at Ford. I really think the solution is somewhere along those lines.
>
> Somewhere on MetaLink there is a note which actually explains how
> Oracle manages character sets, but I forget just which note it is.
>
>

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