Oracle Unicode Spooling
How can I spool data from a table to a file which contains Unicode characters? I have a sql file which I execute from SQL*Plus screen and its content is: SET ECHO OFF SET FEEDBACK OFF SET HEADING OFF SET PAGESIZE 0 SPOOL STREET_POINT_THR.BQSV SELECT GEOX||'`'||GEOY||'`'||UNICODE_DESC||'`'||ASCII_DESC FROM GEO.STREET_POINTS; SPOOL OFF with the right settings your script does work with SQL*Plus. Here is what I did to test it: (obviously) your database must support unicode. Use NVARCHAR2 if necessary. Setup your client application correctly . make sure your NLS_LANG variable is set correctly, it