Using utl.http - ca'nt read hebrew

Question

hello!
I compiled a function that using utl.http and get as an argument a http , which openning a xml , and return it back into a clob.
then i run a procedure that generate from the clob a xml file.
my problem is that the xml content contain hebrew and when i generate the xml i got ערן יפרח (gibrish) instead hebrew. i get the same result when i select the function from dual;
i think i have problem with my charset.
i run it on 9i and my nls parm as the followes:
NLS_CHARACTERSET : IW8ISO8859P8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET : AL16UTF16
i try to use UTL_HTTP.set_body_charset(resp,'IW8ISO8859P8') (see down) , but it did'nt help.
(i also tried every windows hebrew charset that i found..)
the xml stream i recseived is encoding utf-8. i also try AL16UTF16 but it's didnt help.
this is my function:
function read_data_from_http_link2 (in_path_achment_url in varchar2 )
return clob
is
req UTL_HTTP.REQ;
resp UTL_HTTP.RESP;
DATA varchar2(2000);
DATA1           clob;
def_timeout PLS_INTEGER;
begin
req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST(in_path_achment_url);
resp := UTL_HTTP.GET_RESPONSE(req);
IF (resp.status_code = utl_http.http_ok) THEN
UTL_HTTP.set_body_charset(resp,'IW8ISO8859P8');
BEGIN
LOOP
--UTL_HTTP.READ_RAW(resp, DATA,32767);
-- UTL_HTTP.READ_LINE(resp, DATA);
UTL_HTTP.READ_TEXT(resp, DATA);
DATA1 := DATA1||DATA;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(DATA);
END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
UTL_HTTP.SET_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT(def_timeout);
WHEN OTHERS THEN
null;
END;
UTL_HTTP.SET_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT(def_timeout);
ELSE
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
END IF;
return(DATA1);
end;
as you can see, i also tried:
1. UTL_HTTP.READ_LINE(resp, DATA); (same result).
2. UTL_HTTP.READ_RAW(resp, DATA,32767); (no result).
the xml from http goes :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <leads>
- <lead id="14784">
<date>2008-01-01</date>
<name> שם</name>
<mail>[email protected]</mail>
<phone>051123252</phone>
<project_id>2641</project_id>
<project>שם פרויקט</project>
</lead>
and etc.
Any ideas?
thanks!
yair

Answer 1

Here is the solution :
char clobVal[] = new char[(int) l_ClobHtml.length()];
Reader r = l_ClobHtml.getCharacterStream();
r.read(clobVal);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
sw.write(clobVal);
System.out.println(clobVal);
l_strHtml = new String(clobVal);
Thanks .