Oracle DUMP procedure returns question marks for Chinese characters
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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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