Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:41:19 -0600 Reply-To: "Jim Kennedy" From: "Jim Kennedy" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.tools References: <1107268618.143081.181840@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Unicode conversion Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:41:40 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.5.156 X-Trace: sv3-dhvCE7EWdDcooNRY49mESY+h01XnSyH1NKxieagxN7uIZ90THJ/DUUhcWXbxeixvCapsIIQfe7BT2v2!lrDTEuBHDo+I4YnWGx5Cat79uARANNmuJwgCbmaLCkWOd38/BnAVkEeEF8YoDjbH87sw9NJ1LMom!gFWokA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.misc:116121 comp.databases.oracle.server:234764 comp.databases.oracle.tools:67374 wrote in message news:1107268618.143081.181840@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I am working on conversion of existing Oracle database character set to > UTF8, I want to convert existing longraw column from a language > specified locale and converts it to Unicode, I want to write a > conversion program in dot net to do it. What is the best way of doing > it? Is there any other way that could be achived? > > Any information provided will be greatly appreciated. > Thanks in advance, > > Debu > long raw is a binary field and thus has nothing to do with character conversions. If you are using a long raw as a character then you are nuts. Jim