Inserting UNICODE characters in Sql .

Question

Hi ,

I am trying to get unicode strings into an SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 database but am having difficulties. If I use SQLPlus and copy and paste the insert statement into the database, any special characters are inserted as ? or something like that. I then try to call a sql file that has been encoded to UTF-8 and the outcome is the same. Does anyone know how to get unicode data into database?

Can anyone help . How can i set NLS_LANG option within sqlplus

Answer 1

SQL *Plus is not a database it's a command-line based front-end to a SQL or PL/SQL database. The command-line usually only supports ANSI or ASCI encoded characters. So when you try and paste in the command the program (SQL *Plus) just replaces the text it can't figure out how to encode with "?" marks. You probably need to switch to a different client application to use UTF-8