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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?
From: "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <ZeugswetterA () spardat ! at>
Date: 2007-04-04 10:02:07
Message-ID: E1539E0ED7043848906A8FF995BDA57901E7B6D4 () m0143 ! s-mxs ! net
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> > When the database uses a single byte encoding, the chr function
takes
> > the binary byte representation as an integer number between 0 and
255
> > (e.g. ascii code).
> > When the database encoding is one of the unicode encodings it takes
a
> > unicode code point.
> > This is also what Oracle does.
>
> Sorry, but this is *NOT* what Oracle does.
> At least if we can agree that the code point for the Euro
> sign is 0x20AC.
yes
>
> SQL> SELECT ASCII('EUR') AS DEC,
> 2 TO_CHAR(ASCII('EUR'), 'XXXXXX') AS HEX
> 3 FROM DUAL;
>
> DEC HEX
> ---------- ----------------------------
> 14844588 E282AC
>
> The encoding in this example is AL32UTF8, which corresponds
> to our UTF8.
You are right, I am sorry. My test was broken.
To get the euro symbol in Oracle with a AL32UTF8 encoding you use
chr(14844588)
Andreas
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