Select from in SQL Developer fails - SQL*Plus works

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I've got the HS connection to MySLQ working correctly and most of the requirements I have with respect to the data is working.
However, i"m only able to test my procedures and functions in SQL*PLus. IN SQL Developer 4.0.0.12 there is always a problem and query results are never displayed.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Sincerely
JS

Actually Mike,
The white spaces are appended to the end of the resulting string. I've included the NLS setting for bother Oracle adn MySQL as well as my odbc.ini file
select '"'|| "User" ||'"' as Username from "user"@MYODBC5;
Results (there is white spaces added right after the username, as the result shoudl have been "intm","root" as opposed to "intm                                "
===============================================================================================================
USERNAME
"intm
USERNAME
"root
NLS _SETTINGS ORACLE
==============================================================
Oracle:
======
NAME
VALUE$
NLS_LANGUAGE
AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY
AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY
$
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY
AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS
NLS_CHARACTERSET
AL32UTF8
NLS_CALENDAR
GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT
DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE
AMERICAN
NLS_SORT
BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT
HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NAME
VALUE$
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT
DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXF
F AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT
HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT
DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXF
F AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY
$
NLS_COMP
BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS
BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP
FALSE
NAME
VALUE$
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET
AL16UTF16
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION
11.2.0.2.0
NLS _SETTINGS MYSQL
==============================================================
Oracle:
======
NAME :
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                       |
| character_set_connection | utf8                       |
| character_set_database   | latin1                     |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
| character_set_results    | utf8                       |
| character_set_server     | latin1                     |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
===========================================================ODBC INI
[myodbc5]
Driver = /usr/lib64/libmyodbc5a.so
Description = Connector/ODBC 5.3.4 Driver DSN
SERVER = 127.0.0.1
PORT = 3306
USER = intm
PASSWORD = *********
DATABASE = mysql
OPTION = 0
TRACE = OFF

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NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY €
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
SQL> select * from V$NLS_PARAMETERS;
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY GERMANY
NLS_CURRENCY €
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY GERMANY
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ,.
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD.MM.RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY €
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
2. Windows Language is german
I should be possible to insert the chinese characters into the table from the SQL*Plus (sqlplusw.exe) and SQL*Plus should be able to show the chinese characters from that table.
Is there any Step-By-Step Tutorial for the changes, that I should provide?
Can anybody help me?
Thanks

I have a table CHINESE with one column STRING
NVARCHAR2(250). There I will store the chinese
character and display the content in SQL*Plus.
Into the table I will insert with SQL*Plus with
INSERT Statement.
To store the character you could use e.g.
insert unistr(<unicode value expression>) into table But Sql*Plus does not support Unicode display. Use SQL Developer instead for displaying your table data.
You could also use select dump(column,1016) from table to verify that character data is correctly converted and stored.
Windows Codepage is 1252.
What do you mean under "what is your corresponding
NLS_LANG client char set setting" ?With acp 1252, your NLS_LANG should contain .WE8MSWIN1252 - this tells Oracle your acp setting.
Note however that windows-1252 does not define any Chinese characters.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/globalization/htdocs/nls_lang%20faq.htm
You can read more about Unicode string literals in Oracle in chapter 7 Programming with Unicode, Globalization Support guide in 10.2. Also you probably should read about NCHAR literal replacement (available only in 10.2 and above).
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14225/toc.htm
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orafad

SQL plus and Spatial tables

I have some spatial tables in 10g. I can use 'select query' on non spatial attributes but if try
select * or
select geom then my SQL plus gives error ::
Program Error - sqlplusw.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created.
<Cancel>
But I am able to use isqlplus without any errors.
Earlier SQL plus used to work fine. I don't understand what happened to it in between.
How can I bring my SQL plus working again.

I created a copy for a spatial table using.
create table copy as select * from original, and it was successful .
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