How to translate database character from GB2312 to GBK?

Question

I have a problem. I am response for managing a large Oracle database. The RDBMS is oracle 8.1.6 under solarise 2.7 . I need to translate database character from GB2312 to GBK. Who can tell me how to do? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

The UTF-8 encoding is an encoding that converts each
character to 1~3 bytes depending on what unicode block
the character belongs. And the expression such as
"\u5143\u7d20" (double quote for String) is the
unicode escape sequence and is independent of UTF-8 or
other encodings. If you would like to convert a
GB2312 file to a file written in the form of unicode
sequences, then you can use the command line command
"native2ASCII." See the tutorial in the following
link.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/windows/natie2ascii.html
Let me explain bit clearly, We have Chinese character in GB2312 Instant DB Database as well as in file. We want to convert it into Unicode and insert into AS400 Database. In Instant DB the values are inserted using DBVisualizer (Simple INSERT SQL Statement). If we use the same style in AS400 we couldn't display the Chinese fonts in Java Swing Components.
So we thought of changing these into Unicode escape sequence and insert into AS400. Unicode escape sequence can be viewed in Java Swing Components if it declared in the code as a String, but it is not working if we retrieved it from AS400.
Do you have any idea?