Unicode Issue

[PeteDaMeat]

I have the following query which contains a Simplified Chinese character:

select asciistr(炫) from dual; Note: &#28843 should display as a Chinese character!

If I run this from within PL/SQL developer the results are:

?

However, if I run the same query from within Oracle SQL developer I get:

\70AB

Oracle SQL developer is returning the correct result. I thought PL/SQL could handle Unicode? Why is it returning a ?

My version of PL/SQL is 8.0.3.1510

 

[Marco Kalter]

Maybe this is an environment issue. Can you go to Help > Support Info, press the 'Copy all pages' button on this info screen, and paste this text into an e-mail reply?

 

[PeteDaMeat]

Have just emailed you with the "Support Info".