How to find Special Characters in a table ?

Hi,
I have a problem, during a data upload by the client, some special characters were uploaded in the database.
Sample data : " AC Power Cord Denmark "
I want to find all records containing such special characters and update them.
TOAD is able to display these characters but when i copy them onto the query... it doesnt work.
Can we know which encoding is that ? or do something to take care of this ?
Thanks in Advance.
Message was edited by:
Champ

insert into t1 values ('joe$%"likes#$%#to*()ride%^$#his bike');
1 rows inserted
select * from t1;
C1
joe$%"likes#$%#to*()ride%^$#his bike
1 rows selected
select translate(c1,'!@#$%^&*()"','          ') from t1;
TRANSLATE(C1,'!@#$%^&*()"','')
joe likes    to   ride    his bike
1 rows selected
update t1 set c1 = translate(c1,'!@#$%^&*()"','          ');
1 rows updated
select * from t1;
C1
joe likes    to   ride    his bike
1 rows selectedI didn't notice your special special characters, but it still works:
insert into t1 values ('joe likes his'||chr(22));
select * from t1;
select translate(c1,chr(22),' ') from t1;
update t1 set c1 = translate(c1,chr(22),' ');
select * from t1;
Message was edited by:
JoeC

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