convert oracle 字符串,在oracle中将特殊字符转换为纯文本

we are having a database with utf8 as charset. now in one table we are having a value like

'HERBES-Herbe à poux' . now we have to convert it into 'HERBES-Herbe a poux' . i.e à-->a.

We cannot have a replace function since the values are dynamic.

Please help us.

解决方案

What constitutes a "special character" to you? Anything outside the US7ASCII character set?

You can potentially use the CONVERT function

SELECT convert( <>, 'US7ASCII' )

FROM table_name

Assuming that there is a mapping for the particular character to the US7ASCII character set, that mapping will be used to replace the character. If there is no mapping defined, the character will be replaced by the default replacement character, a question mark "?".