Multi character set support

we plan to implement Interconnect to get new customer records created in many databases (at distributed locations) to be populated into a central system.
all the databases are running on Oracle Database 9.x and we plan to use DB adapters to access each of them.
3 of these databases store data in double-byte format (Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese). others are in standard US/American English
my questions are:-
1) does my central system's database have to be set to use a certain character set too ?
2) do i have to configure Interconnect to ensure that data from non-English systems are retrieved and populated correctly into my central database
thanks for any response

Hi,
We are also facing similar problem. We are using IC version 9.0.2. We have AQ adapter at source and DB adapter at destination. The characterset at DB application database is UTF-8. Where as in AQ application database is AR8MSWIN1256. We are using request/reply scenario. But the reply message which gets enqueued to the queue by AQ adapter contains '??????' (arabic data)
We have specified the encoding type in both adapter.ini files but no use.
We also followed the steps as stated in Metalink bug id 2375248. But nothing works. Can somebody help us???
-Vimala

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http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showFrameDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=190281.1
Problem Description
You are using OC4J and trying to connect to a database using JDBC OCI and
are getting:
"java.sql.SQLException: Character Set Not Supported !!: DBConversion"
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Replace the <OC4J_HOME>\jdbc\lib\classes12dms.jar with
<ORACLE_HOME>\jdbc\lib\classes12.jar and rename it with classes12dms.jar.
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multibyte character set other than UTF8, the character integrity issue
occurs. Mobile Sync retrieves data from the server database through Oracle
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Transaction tr = s.beginTransaction();
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id=stream.readInt();
descr=stream.readString();
//cre_date=stream.readDate();
cre_user=stream.readInt();
//upd_date=stream.readDate();
upd_user=stream.readInt();
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stream.writeString(this.descr);
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//stream.writeDate(cre_date);
stream.writeInt(this.cre_user);
System.out.println("userrrrrrrrrrrr");
//stream.writeDate(upd_date);
stream.writeInt(this.upd_user);
System.out.println("upd uiserrrrrrrrrrr");
stream.writeString(this.xfr_flag);
System.out.println("flagggggggggggggggggggg"+xfr_flag);
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return id;
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public int getCre_user() {
return cre_user;
* @param cre_user the cre_user to set
public void setCre_user(Object obj) {
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cre_user number(10),
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upd_user number(10),
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cre_user in number default null,
--upd_date in date      default null,
upd_user in number default null,
xfr_flag in varchar2 default null ) RETURN SELF AS RESULT IS
BEGIN
SELF.id := id ;
SELF.descr := descr ;
--SELF.cre_date := cre_date ;
SELF.cre_user := cre_user ;
--SELF.upd_date := cre_date ;
SELF.upd_user := cre_user ;
SELF.xfr_flag := xfr_flag ;
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LOOP
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DESCR,
CRE_DATE,
CRE_USER,
UPD_DATE,
UPD_USER,
XFR_FLAG )
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p_tab_obj_test(row).DESCR,
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NULL,
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