Arabic characters displaying ??????

Hi ,
i have defined a rtf template it contains some text(title) in arabic.
when previewing arabic text is displaying as ??????
any suggestions will be appreciated.
Regards,
mateen

Hi
I had a similar issue with arabic chars. With PDF layout, chars were appearing properly when preveiwd on local m/c, but as I implement file on server, it was displayed as ?????. I had raised a TAR 5798348.993 with oracle about this and they suggested to apply patch 4028294 Oracle Sourcing J Rollup and then patch 4182914. But later my users changed requirement and i cud not apply the patch to test if it works fine.
But here, you have suggested that installing fonts would do. Is it really that simple? If yes, dont know what is that patch for which I was told to apply.
Regards
Varun

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Hi all,
We are facing problems in displaying arabic characters on some pages while loading data from database with AR locale settings.
When UTF-8 did not work as the data in database was stored using encoding WINDOWS-1256.
After changing to WINDOWS-1256, it did work on most of the pages by adding following two lines, but one page still has problems and data is displayed as ????????????????
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1256"%>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256"/>The .jsp page with problem, has one extra following LINE, if that can be a problem during its initialization etc.:
<%@ page extends="com.retailer.web.ParentJsp"%>And ParentJsp.java extends com.orionserver.http.OrionHttpJspPage
Beside above things, what are chances that the FONT-FAMILY used from .css as styleClass attribute with web control, can create problems...
Thanx in advance...
Edited by: ghussain on May 18, 2009 5:00 PM

Use UTF-8 all the way.
Carefully read this: [http://balusc.blogspot.com/2009/05/unicode-how-to-get-characters-right.html].
Please keep in mind that using a Windows proprietary encoding on the both sides requires (yes, requires) that both the server machine and the client machine runs Windows. Why would you tight couple your server environment that much and why would you exlude non-Windows users from your webapp? This is almost the most foolish you can do.

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Hi,
I did an full database export of 8.0.6.0 database and imported in 10.2.0.4 (with below 10g NLS Setting). All the arabic characters in 10g are shown as '???', but when i type and save arabic characters, they are displayed properly. Where could be the problem. i need all the old data to be displayed in arabic. Please advice
*8.0.6 win 2003 server (32 bit ) NLS Setting*
PARAMETER                                  VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE                          AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY,                         AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY,                            $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY,                 AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS,       .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET,               AR8MSWIN1256
NLS_CALENDAR,                        GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT,                  DD-MON-YY
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE,              AMERICAN
NLS_SORT,                                    BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET, AR8MSWIN1256
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION,                   8.0.6.0.0*10.2.0.4 win 2008 server (64 bit) NLS Settings*
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NLS_LANGUAGE                   AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY                   AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY                        $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY            AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS         .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET         AR8MSWIN1256
NLS_CALENDAR                  GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT            DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE       AMERICAN
NLS_SORT                            BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT             HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT           DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
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NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT    DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY               $
NLS_COMP                                    BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS           BYTE
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NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET is irrelevant unless you keep your Arabic data in N[VAR]CHAR columns. Moreover, AL16UTF16 supports Arabic and there is no need to change it. Please, ignore Fran's advice. On the other hand, do follow Srini's advice. The log will tell us what could have gone wrong. The most probable cause is that the 8.0.6 export was done without NLS_LANG being set to .AR8MSWIN1256. In such case, you have to set NLS_LANG correctly and re-export. Keep NLS_LANG set to .AR8MSWIN1256 at the import time as well.
-- Sergiusz

Problem displaying Arabic characters in PDF using Java APIs

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Hi
I had a similar issue with arabic chars. With PDF layout, chars were appearing properly when preveiwd on local m/c, but as I implement file on server, it was displayed as ?????. I had raised a TAR 5798348.993 with oracle about this and they suggested to apply patch 4028294 Oracle Sourcing J Rollup and then patch 4182914. But later my users changed requirement and i cud not apply the patch to test if it works fine.
But here, you have suggested that installing fonts would do. Is it really that simple? If yes, dont know what is that patch for which I was told to apply.
Regards
Varun

Arabic characters are not getting displayed in oracle pdf output

Hi,
I am trying to print arabic characters in report output but junk characters are getting displayed in output.
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[flat file settings and data preview|http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arabcharyx3.jpg]
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Hé Amr, thanks a lot! This sounds good.
I indeed saw a kind of this solution somewhere else. What I did not is restarting the computer, since it is a shared server. Maybe that was why it didn't solve my problem.
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Hi
Following is our environment
DB Version: Oracle 11g R2 (11.2.0.3.0) 64bit
OS : OEL 5U2
Characterset: AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8MSWIN1256
We have an opensource application built on php. CHARSET was defined as AR8MSWIN1256 in the configuration file. Data was inserted using browser based interface. Use access the system using IE 8 since it is web based application. Data comprise of both Arabic and English. It is displayed perfectly fine using browser ie Arabic shows proper Arabic characters and English shows correct English.
Problem started when a requirement came to generate some reports using Oracle Reports 10g. Arabic data show as garbage in the reports. Vendor was asked to provide some solution. They suggested to change the CHARSET to AL32UTF8 in the config file of the application. After making the changes, the new data that is inserted in the database can be seen correctly for both languages regardless of the tool (be it SQLDeveloper or Oracle Reports). The old data, however, shows garbage. Surprisingly when data is extracted using scripts in flat files and then imported in the test database after setting environment variable NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 using @/../filename.sql, it converts it properly. Since data is huge and this is taking way too much time, I was hoping if someone could help me in quickly perform this migration? Already tried CSSCAN/CSALTER and DMU but did not succeed. DMU stopped at 5th stage when it was supposed to issue ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET command.
Currently I am installing database with AL32UTF8 characterset and planning to import the schema in it. Is my approach correct? Any help will be highly appreciated.
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myuser@DB>select dump(name,1016) from mytable where id like '2';
DUMP(NAME,1016)
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UTF8Edited by: user560883 on May 4, 2012 3:34 AM
Edited by: user560883 on May 4, 2012 3:39 AM

Hi Sergiusz
Firstly I would like to thank you for replying.
Secondly I was able to move further with the DMU (the issue was due to more sessions that I had to kill to allow DMU to proceed with ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET command).
Here is what I have done so far without any luck.
1) Created a test instance with source database characterset ie AR8MSWIN1256 and performed a full import using DataPump (impdp).
2) Used DMU to perform conversion/migration to AL32UTF8. (this step took almost 5 hours).
3) Used SQLDeveloper to verify the results and data still show as garbage.
Thing that worked for me but is way to slow and not reliable.
1) Save data in file (.sql) using Windows XP client or windows 2003 server. Basically I am generating the whole SQL statements for UPDATE eg UPDATE table SET xx)
2) SET NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 on command prompt of Windows XP client and use SQLPLUS to open sql prompt.
3) Use @path\file.sql (that was generated in earlier step) to update records.
4) Verify via SQLDeveloper that arabic shows correctly.
Issue with above approach is since we have millions of records stored in multiple tables, sometimes while generating the file with SQL Statements, the server CPU touch 100% and then freeze. Also file size grow exponentially and to verify how much of the work was done prior to freezing becomes very difficult.
I still have the DB after using the DMU tool intact so if you could think of some other workaround that will be great.
Again, thank you for helping me with this.

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