Query with Unicode characters

[Alain Migeon]

Hi

I have an Oracle 10g database in the AL32UTF8 format. The NLS_LANG is also set to AL32UTF8.
This database contains cyrillic characters. In PL/SQL Developer 7.0.3, the Unicode option is enabled.

When trying to view data from tables that contains cyrillic characters, those are displayed properly.
But if I copy this cyrillic characters into a query, they are all replaced by ?, and therefore my query doesn't return anything.

Are there any simple way to make it work?

Alain

 

[Marco Kalter]

The SQL and PL/SQL editors currently do not support Unicode. This will be added for 7.1, for which we will have a beta version available shortly.

The only alternative for 7.0 is to use a national character set for the Oracle Client, so that it converts between Unicode and national characters.

 

[Alain Migeon]

Thanks for the feedback.
What is the time frame for the release?

Will it also be possible to display string in UTF8 format in the hex viewer?

 

[Marco Kalter]

The first beta is planned for this month.

The hex viewer can already display Unicode in 7.0.3.

 

[Alain Migeon]

I have seen the display. My question was UTF-8 specific.

I consider this character :
П : cyrillic capital letter pe.

In the hex viewer, it will be seen as 1F04, which corresponds to U+041F in UTF-16 low endian.
But when using a database with AL32UTF8, with string stored in VARCHAR2 and not VARNCHAR, this character will be stored as D09F, which is the UTF-8 representation.

Somehow, I think it could be nice if the hex viewer could also display in UTF-8, since it corresponds exactly to the way the character is stored in the database.