Inserting JAPANESE characters in a database

Question

Can somebody please let me know how to insert the JAPANESE (Kanji) Characters into the Database.
Database Version: Oracle 9.2.0.1.0
Paremeters Setting:
NLS_CHARACTERSET - UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET - UTF8
Server OS: Win2K
Client OS: Win2K

Answer 1

Not sure what your overall requirements from an application
support standpoint. But a simple way would be to use UNIST.
Here is a description:
UNISTR takes as its argument a string and returns it in the national character set.The national character set of the database can be either AL16UTF16 or UTF8.
UNISTR provides support for Unicode string literals by letting you specify the Unicode encoding value of characters in the string. This is useful, for example, for
inserting data into NCHAR columns.
The Unicode encoding value has the form '\xxxx' where 'xxxx' is the hexadecimal value of a character in UCS-2 encoding format. To include the backslash in
the string itself, precede it with another backslash (\\).
For portability and data preservation, Oracle Corporation recommends that in the UNISTR string argument you specify only ASCII characters and the Unicode
encoding values.
Examples
The following example passes both ASCII characters and Unicode encoding values to the UNISTR function, which returns the string in the national character
set:
SELECT UNISTR('abc\00e5\00f1\00f6') FROM DUAL;
UNISTR
abceqv