Convert a string from one character set to another.
Syntax convert( string , char_set_to , [ char_set_from ] ) Key string String to be converted char_set_to Character set to convert to. char_set_from Character set to convert from.
Common character sets:
WE8ISO8859P1 ISO 8859-1 West European 8-bit character set
US7ASCII US 7-bit ASCII character set
JA16SJIS Japanese 16-bit Shifted Japanese Industrial Standard
The database character encoding scheme is defined as part of the CREATE DATABASE statement.
All SQL CHAR datatype columns (CHAR, CLOB, VARCHAR2, and LONG), including columns in the data dictionary, have their data stored in the database character set. In addition, the character set determines which characters can be used to name objects in the database.
Example
SQL> SELECT CONVERT('SÄMPLE TÊXT','US7ASCII','WE8ISO8859P1') FROM dual;
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