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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Special Characters Created on a UNIX system with HP Terminal on US7ASCII
Laurenz Albe wrote:
> The right thing would be to do an ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET to
> change the database to the encoding of the data that are stored in it.
Yes, but going straight this way "gk24" would lose all its special characters. How can he keep the "wrong" characters? The only solution that I see is to dump out the data in a textfile (using sqlplus or another tool) and reinserting them after the charset change.
-- CdLReceived on Wed Jul 25 2007 - 10:23:48 CDT
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