how replace accented letter in a varchar2 column in oracle

Question

I have a varchar2 column named NAME_USER. for example the data is: JUAN ROMÄN but I try to show JUAN ROMAN, replace Á to A in my statement results. How Can I do that?. Thank

Answer 1

Use convert function with the appropriate charset

select CONVERT('JUAN ROMÄN', 'US7ASCII') from dual;

below are the charset which can be used in oracle:

US7ASCII: US 7-bit ASCII character set
WE8DEC: West European 8-bit character set
WE8HP: HP West European Laserjet 8-bit character set
F7DEC: DEC French 7-bit character set
WE8EBCDIC500: IBM West European EBCDIC Code Page 500
WE8PC850: IBM PC Code Page 850
WE8ISO8859P1: ISO 8859-1 West European 8-bit character set