From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-10-20T19:52:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem stored values in Oracle 2008/10/20 Mario Ruiz : > How can I check the encoding, encode and decode? If the column type is NVARCHAR2 it's Unicode. For more info, please check Oracle's docs: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements001.htm#i45685 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14225/ch2charset.htm#NLSPG002 Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end