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Chinese Special Characters Are Not Displayed Correctly (Open Square / Box) (Doc ID 811735.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 16, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle SQL Developer - Version 1.5 to 3.2 [Release 1.5.0 to 3]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms


Special characters (Chinese) are displayed OK in SQL Worksheet (F5).
For this, the font Arial Unicode MS is used. See <Note 779917.1>

But the same select statement result in the Results area is not OK (F9).
Here, only open boxes are shown.

Cause

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