Working with a database can be so easy - as long as you don't need to care about localization or languages with more or other letters than english. One of these Languages is German. And here the problem starts... Introduction Let's look at a simple scenario: Inserting a text with German letters like ä, ö, ü and ß into the Oracle 11g database. And right now there already could be a problem when trying to select it again. So what is the problem here? Actually the problem itself is very simple: The character encoding. However the solution is not as simple. I tried to connect to Oracle via an ODBC connection from Lazarus IDE for inserting german press releases with a lot of Umlauts (äöü). The result in the database was a mess. So how to solute this mess? The "problematic chain" First of all we have to consider that different operating systems have different character sets. Usually current Linux distributions have a Unicode character set in contrast to Windows, u
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