What file format Oracle Database 11g can spool data w chinese characters?

Question

Hi,
I have a batch job that spools data into a text file for further processing but now I have data that contains chinese characters.
From what I know text file (.txt) cannot support chinese characters.
Anyone has any idea what file format Oracle Database 11g can spool data with chinese characters?
Thank you!
Regards,
Fel

Answer 1

I'm not sure this can work with SQL*Plus in character mode on Windows DOS mode. But this should work with SQL Developer: see Re: How to display Chinese characters in Oracle?
I can also make this work with Linux:
$ locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ cat chinese.sql
cat tchinese.sql
set echo on
spool tchinese.log
select * from v$version;
select unistr('\8349') from dual;
exit
$ cat tchinese.log
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER                                                                         
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod               
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production                                         
CORE     10.2.0.1.0     Production                                                     
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production                                 
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production                                         
SQL> select unistr('\8349') from dual;
UNIS                                                                           
草                                                                              Edited by: P. Forstmann on May 27, 2009 10:30 AM
Edited by: P. Forstmann on May 27, 2009 10:33 AM