Hi, --- "Weaver, Walt" <wweaver@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is anyone experienced with finding illegal UTF8 > sequences and doing > something about them? > > We have a UTF8 database containing Japanese data. "Unicode Debystified, A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard" has some algorithms for testing Unicode. I have never tried to compile and run them however. Its worth a browse at the bookstore. There are clear explanations of different Unicode charactersets in the book, and that may help you to research the problem. HTH. Regards, Mike Thomas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------