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Multi-Byte Characters in Languages Like Arabic and German Are Changed to "?" (Question Mark) in ODI (Doc ID 1600109.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Data Integrator - Version 10.1.3.2.0 and later
Oracle Data Integrator on Marketplace - Version 1.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
The article applies to all releases of ODI like the current 12C as well as to previous releases.

Symptoms

Trying to load different language data (English, Korean, Thai, Russian, Arabic, German...) into an Oracle table, using Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).

When performing this load, the target Oracle table gets populated, but for Arabic and German characters, the data is shown with question marks ( ？？？).

The data in the source table is shown correct in both the database and ODI. But the target Oracle table shows wrong data getting populated:

 

Cause

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