Re: Kanji conversion between databases w/ two different char sets
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:22:02 +0800
Message-ID: <1dwhehy.1dfpejw1gyovf0N_at_[201.1.1.73]>
Hi,
just interested where the other characters are going to go
since Kanji is a japanese system to represent chinese charcters, how
will you represent a chinese characterset only using 256 characters when
there are over 10,000 chinese characters.
steve
Helge Scheil <helge_at_wrs.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we're trying to import Kanji data from an Oracle database that is using
> a two-byte character set (ja16euc) into another Oracle database that is
> using a single-byte characters set (we8iso8859p1). The database link
> itself doesn't perform any conversion ... it's just a DB pipe.
>
> However, the CONVERT function is supposed to exactly cover that but it's
> not working in our environment. The converted strings arrive "garbled".
>
> Has anyone worked w/ this kind of problem and what solution did you come
> up with?
>
> Thanks -- Helge
> helge_at_wrs.com
Received on Fri Aug 13 1999 - 09:22:02 CEST