Displaying non-ascii characters in SQL Plus Windows

Hi,
is it possible to display data from more than language at the same time in SQL Plus? Or can you do this only one language at the time?
Thanks,
Cornee van der Linden

I think this question is better suited to the globalization discussion forum, Technologies -> Architecture -> Globalization and NLS. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Alison

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Displaying Chinese characters in SQL*Plus

DB version: 11.2
OS Version : AIX 6.1
DB characterset:AL32UTF8
To display chinese characters in SQL*Plus, I did the following:
$ export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB2312
$ export NLS_LANG="SIMPLIFIED CHINESE_CHINA.ZHS16GBK"
$
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on ÐÇÆÚÈý 5ÔÂ 2 15:52:33 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET NLS_LANGUAGE='SIMPLIFIED CHINESE';
Session altered.
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET NLS_TERRITORY='CHINA';
Session altered.
SQL> select unistr('\8349') from dual; ---- not 100% sure if this is the way to verify if chinese characters can be displayed.
UN
²Ý ----------------------------------------> Getting a junk character instead of chinese If I was using putty, are the above steps enough to get chinese characters displayed ?
Our ssh client is Tectia (not putty).
According the below ML Note, the SSH client has to configured correctly to use globalization features.
+The correct NLS_LANG setting in Unix Environments [ID 264157.1]+
Googling "Tectia + Chinese" didn't return useful results

I understand that you are talking about Windows SSH Client.
For Putty, you should set:
$ export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8
$ export NLS_LANG="SIMPLIFIED CHINESE_CHINA.AL32UTF8"
and configure Putty in Window->Translation to use UTF-8.
There is nothing about this subject on Tectia website and in their manuals, so my best guess is that the client requires Windows code page to work correctly. In such case you need to set your Windows system default locale (locale for non-Unicode programs) to Chinese and use the following settings on the server:
$ export LANG=zh_CN.GBK
$ export LC_ALL=zh_CN.GBK
$ export NLS_LANG="SIMPLIFIED CHINESE_CHINA.ZHS16GBK"
Verify with 'locale -a' that the setting zh_CN.GBK is supported on your system.
-- Sergiusz

Replacing non-ASCII characters with HTML charcter references

Hi All,
In Oracle 10g or greater is there a built-in function that will convert a string with non-ASCII characters like this
a b č 뮼
into an ASCII string with HTML character references like this?
a b & # x 0 1 0 D ; & # x B B B C ;
(note I had to include spaces between each character in the sample code for message to prevent the forum software from converting my text)
I tried using
utl_i18n.escape_reference( val, 'us7ascii' )
but for some reason it returns
a b c & # x B B B C ;
Note how it converted the Western European character "č" to its unaccented counterpart "c", not "& # x 0 1 0 D ;" (is this a bug?).
I also tried a custom solution using regexp_replace and asciistr (which I can't include here because the forum software chokes on it) but it only returns the correct result for values <=4000 characters long. Unfortunately asciistr doesn't appear to accept CLOB values larger than 4000 characters. It returns an error message like
(ORA-22835: Buffer too small for CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW conversion (actual: 30251, maximum: 4000) ).
I'm looking for a solution that works on CLOB data of any size.
Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Joe Fuda

So with that (UTF8) in mind, let's take another look.....
As shown below, I used a AL32UTF8 database.
Note: I did not use a unicode capable tool for querying. So I set console mode code page to 1250 just to have č displayed properly (instead of posing as an è).
Also, as a result of using windows-1250 for client character set, in the val column and in the second select's ncr column (iso8859-1), è (00e8) has been replaced with e through character set conversion going from server back to client.
Running the same code on a database with a db character set such as we8mswin1252, that doesn't define the č (latin small c with caron) character, would yield results with a c in the ncr column.
C:\>chcp 1250
Aktuell teckentabell: 1250
C:\>set nls_lang=.ee8mswin1250
C:\>sqlplus test/test
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Fri May 23 21:25:29 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the OLAP option
SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter like '%CHARACTERSET';
PARAMETER              VALUE
NLS_CHARACTERSET       AL32UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
SQL> select unistr('\010d \00e8') val, utl_i18n.escape_reference(unistr('\010d \00e8'),'us7ascii') NCR from dual;
VAL NCR
č e c e
SQL> select unistr('\010d \00e8') val, utl_i18n.escape_reference(unistr('\010d \00e8'),'we8iso8859p1') NCR from dual;
VAL NCR
č e &# x10d; e     <- "è"
SQL> select unistr('\010d \00e8') val, utl_i18n.escape_reference(unistr('\010d \00e8'),'ee8iso8859p2') NCR from dual;
VAL NCR
č e č &# xe8;
SQL> select unistr('\010d \00e8') val, utl_i18n.escape_reference(unistr('\010d \00e8'),'cl8iso8859p5') NCR from dual;
VAL NCR
č e &# x10d; &# xe8;In the US7ASCII case, where it should be possible for all non-ascii characters to be escaped, it seems as if the actual escape step is skipped over.
Hope this helps to understand whether utl_i8n is usable or not in your case.
Message was edited by:
orafad
Fixed replaced character references :)

Does Oracle User Password can contain non-ASCII characters?

Hi Experts,
Can we create a user with password containing non-ASCII characters like "Ro'çá".
I was able to create a database instance by providing the password for sys as "Ro'çá". But now i am not able to login from command prompt using sqlplus or SQLPLUS Application. I am getting below error:
C:\Documents and Settings\xyz>sqlplus system/Ro'çá@test
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sun Jul 4 12:17:33 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
Enter user-name:
same in case i enclose the password in ""
C:\Documents and Settings\xyz>sqlplus system/"Ro'çá"@test
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sun Jul 4 12:17:33 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
Enter user-name:
same in case i enclose the password in ""
Also using create user i am not able to create user with password in non-ASCII characters but alter user works and changes the password to non-ASCII characters when enclosed in quotes.
I wanted to know whether the password can contain non-ASCII characters or not?
Thanks in advance for your help.

I don't think that the characters used are allowed. See this doc which only mentions three characters to be used .
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10575/tdpsg_user_accounts.htm#BEICECGF
I did try the same but it didn't work for me either.
SQL> select * from V$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE 11.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> grant connect to user1 identified by Ro'çá;
ERROR:
ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated
SQL> grant connect to user1 identified by "Ro'çá";
Grant succeeded.
SQL> connect uesr1/"Ro'çá";
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
SQL> connect uesr1/"Ro'çá"
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
SQL> connect uesr1/"Ro'çá"
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
SQL>HTH
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I have attached a Unit Test export called PROC1.XML It tests a procedure that is included in another attachment called PROC1.txt. The unit test includes 2 implementations. Both implementations pass non-ASCII characters to the procedure and return them unchanged.
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Chinese Characters in SQL Plus

Hi, I wonder how do I input the chinese characters in SQL plus? I have set the NLS_LANG value to chinese characterset in the REGEDIT but it doesn't display the chinese characters. Is there any chinese version on Oracle JDeveloper Suite?
Cheers

i have installed sqlplus and oracle db in the same PC under chinese win xp.
i found that if you spool the output to a text file, and type in dos-prompt, it still cannot display the chinese character properly. but if you open the text file by notepad, bingo, you can the chinese character.
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Cannot rename file with non-ASCII characters when using the

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Hello,
I have web application, form based login. UTF-8 is specified "everywhere".
And it works, except for passwords.
If user register itself with password containing non-ascii characters, it is correctly written in database, but when doing either programmatic login or normal form based login, if fails.
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jdbc realm.
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The problem is only with non-ascii characters in password.
Any help very appreciated
Thanks a lot

hi,
I know all that, but that's not the case. My app uses preparedStatements, everything is properly configured, in all pages, utf-8 is going from user to db and back without any problems.
The only problem is with password field. As I am using form based login, with jdbc realm configured (again, nicely working when only ascii characters), I have very little chance to do something bad through the login phase.
I'm not talking about special characters, I'm talking about non-ascii characters, let's say - Chinese, arabish, Russian alphabet etc.
When user registers (my code), the fields are properly written to db. I have checked that, trust me.
But the Sun app server realm seems to have some problems with the password field.
(realm uses jdbc connection to mysql, the url contains all extra parameters to be sure about utf8. there is nothing more what can be configured...)
If I try other alphabet codes in login and ascii in password, it works. But soon, as I use other alphabet code also in password, it doesn't work anymore.
My only idea is, that I could try MD5 to create ascii only characters (I hope it works that way) on the client with javascript and then set Digest to MD5 in realm configuration. But still, it seems very strange. The clear way storage should also function? (now set Digest to 'none')
Is it a bug of Sun App Server?
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