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nranito
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character issue

I create a query with odbc "select ação from dual" and the result is "ac~o". Some characters come all mixed up.

There is some parametrization to solve this issue?

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Eric_Zhang
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@nranito wrote:

I create a query with odbc "select ação from dual" and the result is "ac~o". Some characters come all mixed up.

There is some parametrization to solve this issue?


@nranito

Did you connect that odbc from Power BI Desktop? It appears some encoding issue.

yES, Connection is by odbc.

 

How to fix that encoding issue?

nranito
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Helper II

Depends on any (regional) settings, something??

 

Update:

 

(Oracle database)

Columns defined as VARCHAR2 CHAR show up fine; columns defined as VARCHAR2 BYTE come all messed

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