XMLTYPE and Unicode values.
Hi. The parameters bellow are from the database which I should connect to to run the application I am making :
PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET US7ASCII
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 11.1.0.6.0
I have a PL/SQL function which receive a NVARCHAR2 parameter which will be used as a parameter to create a XMLTYPE variable. This parameter has unicode chars as shown bellow:
p_input IN NVARCHAR2 : = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<DOCPDI>
<OPERACAO valor="2" preaprov="0"/>
<INTERVENCAO id="8198" descricao="Teste de Acentuação"/>
</DOCPDI>';
"çã" are Portuguese characters. The database charset is US7ASCII. I can not change it because it do not belong to me.
Is there a way of using XMLTYPE in this cenario ?
Thanks a lot.