Multibyte Character Issue

Question

Hi,
We just migrated our technology platform on one of the six servers yesterday on production d/b as follows :
OAS Server - Linux Patch Applied (2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:34:19 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
D/B Server - From Oracle 10.2.0.2.0 to Oracle 10.2.0.4.0
Batch Server - From OpenVMS to Red Hat Linux
Post Migration, we are facing some issues with Oracle Forms 10g, Text Items which contains one or more than one multibyte characters, is displaying only # character in the entire text box instead of what is stored in the database. In other words, information in the database is stored correctly. Before Migration everything was working perfectly fine.
One other thing which I would like to tell here is that we compile forms using the following environment settings:
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8
Please provide urgent remedy for this issue

Answer 1

hi,
how about this.
SQL> with your_table as ( -- "sample data"
  2       select '1ξΣ' your_column from dual union all
  3       select 'ξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣ' your_column from dual union all
  4       select 'ξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣ' your_column from dual union all
  5       select '1ξΣa' your_column from dual
  6  ) -- end "sample data"
  7  select your_column,
  8         substr(your_column || rpad(' ', 10 - length(your_column), 'x'),1,10) padded_column
  9    from your_table
10  /
YOUR_COLUMN                              PADDED_COLUMN
1ξΣ                                      1ξΣ xxxxxx
ξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣ                               ξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣ
ξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣ                     ξΣξΣξΣξΣξΣ
1ξΣa                                     1ξΣa xxxxx