<p>This looks like the names are in utf-8 and you need to tell the db about it. I dint know oracle to tell you how though.</p>
<p>Baruch</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 11, 2012 7:31 AM, "Sufyan_ Samara" <<a href="mailto:sufyan_sa@hotmail.com">sufyan_sa@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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<span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px;font-size:12pt">Hello<br><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div>I am loading a shape file (israel openstreet map) into oracle from open street map, however, the name column is not readable. What would be the problem.</div>
<div>I attached a screen shot of the problem</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div> SS</div><div><br></div></span></div></span></span></div></span>                                     </div></div>
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