Oracle DUMP procedure returns question marks for Chinese characters
- by PeteDaMeat
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?