Oracle DUMP procedure returns question marks for Chinese characters

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Published on 2010-04-14T15:51:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 15:53 UTC
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I am using Oracle 10g and am performing the following query:

SELECT DUMP('????', 1017) FROM DUAL;

This outputs:

Typ=96 Len=4 CharacterSet=AL32UTF8: ?,?,?,?

Why have the Chinese characters been replaced with question marks? How do I get it to return the correct characters?

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