SQL Command to insert Chinese Letters

Question

I have a database with one column of the type nvarchar. If I write

INSERT INTO table VALUES (\"玄真\") 

It shows ¿¿ in the table. W

Answer 1

Use single quotes, rather than double quotes, to create a text literal and for a NVARCHAR2/NCHAR text literal you need to prefix it with N

SQL Fiddle

Oracle 11g R2 Schema Setup:

CREATE TABLE table_name ( value NVARCHAR2(20) );

INSERT INTO table_name VALUES (N'玄真');

Query 1:

SELECT * FROM table_name

Results:

| VALUE |
|-------|
|    玄真 |