How to Drop Table with Special or Invalid Character In Tablename? (Doc ID 1612440.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 08, 2014

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

How to drop a table which have a  corrupted name which showing characters that are not defined in the current characterset?

example:

 

191 is a  code points not known to CharacterSet=AL32UTF8
 

Solution

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