How to convert character sets???

I need to load a CLOB from a BFile, the BFile is in an (HP-UX) US7ASCII character set and the database is UTF8. I need to load the CLOB using dbms_lob.loadfromfile but can't find any info on how to convert the US7ASCII file into a UTF8 CLOB.
HELP!!!
--Joan Armstrong

Joan,
I don't know if this will help with conversion of you BFILE, but at
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2000/04/26/encodings/xmlparser.html
and at
http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html
there is some information on conversion to UTF8.
Hope it helps. Let us know.
Dave

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