Chinese and Japanies Characters insert Problem

Question

Hi All,
I have a proble inserting Chinese and Japanies Characters into oracle database.Example:
Created a table in sustom schema and given grants to apps Schema:
create table xxeq_temptest(ENGLISH VARCHAR2(25),JAPANEES NVARCHAR2(100),CHINESE NVARCHAR2(100))
grant all on xxeq_temptest to apps
Connected to apps schema and created synonym for xxeq_temptest and tried inserting the data:
SQL> insert into xxeq_temptest values ('General Leger','??????','?????');
1 row created.
SQL> COMMIT;
Commit complete.
SQL> SELECT * from xxeq_temptest;
ENGLISH
JAPANEES
CHINESE
General Leger
I am unable to see the chinese characters,Please can any one help me in this?
Regards
Raghavendra Nara

Answer 1

What is your database version ?
What are your database character sets ?
Please run and post output of:
select * from v$version;
select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter like '%SET%';What is the tool you are using to insert non ASCII characters ? On which OS ?
Are your sure your OS is able to display Chinese an Japanese characters ?
Note that SQL*Plus on Windows has limitations and SQL Developer is a better tool for that on Windows.
Exemple with SQL Developer and Oracle XE on Windows:
drop table tc purge;
select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter like '%SET%';
create table tc(c nvarchar2(10));
insert into tc values(unistr('\8349'));
commit;
select * from tc;output is:
Succès de l'élément  drop table tc.
PARAMETER                      VALUE                                   
NLS_CHARACTERSET               WE8MSWIN1252                            
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET         AL16UTF16                               
Succès de l'élément create table.
1 rows inserted
commited
C         
草            Edited by: P. Forstmann on 15 oct. 2010 10:04