Uploading File with Umlaute (German) - solved

Question

I am using the .csv to table package from Vikas. The uploaded file comes from one of
my customers. The customer is supposed to save an .xls file as .csv and upload it into
a collection. So far so good. Whenever there are Umlaute (ä, ö, ü), they are not translated
properly and the collection shows a character ¿ instead. So, a REPLACE would not work
there. Is there any experience on how to solve this problem? I have no chance to educate
my customer not to use Umlaute or to ask him to check the settings in their excel, since
they are numerous and anonymous.
Thanks,
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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Answer 1

Okay,
With a little help from John Scott, I found a solution changing this part of the package to:
FOR i IN 1 .. l_record.COUNT
         LOOP
            htmldb_collection.update_member_attribute
                                     (p_collection_name      => p_collection_name,
                                      p_seq                  => l_seq_id,
                                      p_attr_number          => i,
                                      p_attr_value           => CONVERT
                                                                   (l_record
                                                                           (i),
                                                                    'UTF8',
                                                                    'WE8ISO8859P1'
         END LOOP;and it works properly for the German characters.
Thanks,
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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