Character encodings and databases

[Smylers]

William Blunn writes:

> On 19/06/2014 15:58, Andrew Hill wrote:
> 
> > The text file is UTF8 and the database is Oracle 11g.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> > Then I select the VARCHAR2 field ...
> 
> It looks like you are using Oracle. (Probably best to state that
> clearly in questions like this.)

In fairness to Andrew, it seemed pretty clear to me.

Smylers
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