I have a similar issue to remove the UNICODE character.

In my RDF file, i should accomidate it in such a way that what ever currupt characters (Especially UNICODE symbols) comes in between the email_address , it has to change to its subsequent character like this…

The output of ñ should be n. This is a kind of example..

When the input value is ‘john.muñoz@yahoo.com’ it should return ‘john.munoz@yahoo.com’

I have tried using the following functions but the output still shows me the unicode symbol…

select UNISTR(‘john.muñoz@yahoo.com’) from dual

select remove_special_chars(‘john.muñoz@yahoo.com’) from dual

Select translate(trim(email_address),’1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ WE8ISO8859P1 ~!#$%^&*()_+}{“:?><`=]['''';/,','1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') from per_people_f
where employee_number = 3951

select CONVERT('john.muñoz@yahoo.com','US7ASCII') from dual

select regexp_replace('john.muñoz@yahoo.com', '[^-.@,a-z,A-Z,[:space:]]’) from dual;

If you have any ideas.. please let me know…
Thanks in advance
Ravi.

I created the function so that the ‘list’ of unwanted characters can be maintained cleanly. If you use TRANSLATE in your SQL statement, you would have to keep that list available for all developers at all times. To me it was a bit messy. BUT, I do see the point of not using REPLACE. I have updated my post above.

Kirtan

You don’t need to create a PL/SQL function or use REPLACE. TRANSLATE will do the job in one if you put the dummy character in the third argument as the first character in the second argument, e.g.:

TRANSLATE( in_string, CHR(0) || remove_chars, CHR(0) )

I’ve used CHR(0) but any character would do, even space.

Regards

Jonathan

Thank you !
Neha