Re: storing Japanese characters(B

In sci.lang.japan John R. Pink <jpink_at_liquidaudio.com> wrote:
>>I am trying to insert Japanese characters into my Oracle 8.0.5 database
 [snip]
>>when I query (select * from test;) I get:
 

>>真 , 真
 

>>which is JIS code: 3F3F Kuten: 3131 Shift-JIS: 905e Unicode: 771f octal
>>\277\277

That JIS of "3F3F" looks *very* suspicious. Possibly something is turning "bad" characters into partial ASCII nulls. I have looked at the UTF8 coding of 園 and 真 and I can't see a relationship.

I suggest you try again with a different input character, and see if you get the same output. One way or the other it may provide useful evidence.

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