{"id":213,"date":"2021-04-30T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T09:10:11","slug":"how-to-encode-accents-in-an-ascii-sql-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/how-to-encode-accents-in-an-ascii-sql-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How to encode accents in an ascii sql file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you want to send a sql file to someone and it contains accents things go &#8230; bad.<br \/>\nTo circumvent this in oracle sql files you can escape these with compose(unistr(&#8216;CHARACTER + ACCENT&#8217;)).<br \/>\nThis way your sql file remains ascii encoded and accents don&#8217;t go the way of the dodo.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">-- The most common combining characters in ANSI are:\r\n-- U+0300: grave accent (`)\r\n-- U+0301: acute accent (\u00b4)\r\n-- U+0302: circumflex accent(^)\r\n-- U+0303: tilde (~)\r\n-- U+0308: umlaut (\u00a8)\r\n\r\nSELECT\r\ncompose(unistr('a\\0300')) as \"grave accent\",\r\ncompose(unistr('a\\0301')) as \"acute accent\",\r\ncompose(unistr('a\\0302')) as \"circumflex accent\",\r\ncompose(unistr('a\\0303')) as \"tilde\",\r\ncompose(unistr('a\\0308')) as \"umlaut\"\r\nFROM DUAL;<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/accents.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/accents.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/accents.png 415w, https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/accents-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you want to send a sql file to someone and it contains accents things go &#8230; bad. To circumvent this in oracle sql files you can escape these with compose(unistr(&#8216;CHARACTER + ACCENT&#8217;)). This way your sql file remains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/how-to-encode-accents-in-an-ascii-sql-file\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}