Here are the ASCII char being used.
145 221 91 10010001 ‘ ‘ ‘ Left single quotation mark 146 222 92 10010010 ’ ’ ’ Right single quotation mark 147 223 93 10010011 “ “ “ Left double quotation mark 148 224 94 10010100 ” ” ” Right double quotation mark 149 225 95 10010101 • • • Bullet 150 226 96 10010110 – – – En dash --
The default CHAR NOW is a black diamond with ? in middle in stead of 'Right double quoation mark' and others.
The Text used is copied from documents user's get
so someone is putting in I think what is called ALT ascii. This data has been used for years
some updates where put in the system, I don't know details.
The following error started you click YES and the XLS has alot of data missing not just the CLOB.
Excel found unreadable content in ‘file-name’. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook click yes.
I can copy the text then load it into the a column in a xls.
I am exporting the spreadsheet from TOAD it wasn't updated so
it has to be with the EXCEL. I tried changing the ENCODING in EXCEL but that
didn't work.