In Oracle/PLSQL, the convert function converts a string from one character set to another.
The syntax of the convert function is:
convert( string1 , char_set_to , [ char_set_from ] )
string1 is the string to be converted.
char_set_to is the character set to convert to.
char_set_from is the character set to convert from.
Character sets include:
Character Set | Description |
US7ASCII | US 7-bit ASCII character set |
WE8DEC | West European 8-bit character set |
WE8HP | HP West European Laserjet 8-bit character set |
F7DEC | DEC French 7-bit character set |
WE8EBCDIC500 | IBM West European EBCDIC Code Page 500 |
WE8PC850 | IBM PC Code Page 850 |
WE8ISO8859P1 | ISO 8859-1 West European 8-bit character set |
Applies To:
- Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g
For example:
convert('A B C D E Ä Ê Í Õ Ø', 'US7ASCII', 'WE8ISO8859P1') | would return 'A B C D E A E I ? ?' |
