Converting Japanese to Unicode and back

[Shane W]

Hi All
I've inherited some code which inserts Japanese character to Oracle DB.It converts it to Unicode, forms XML out of it,send it to the server where its converted back to original form before inserting to the DB.
However, for some clomns at radom, it is inserting some spurious characters also.
To test, i used 1 record set multiple times in the XML (so that all rows i insert are actually the same) but for some columns,i'm getting this spurious characters.
I logged the reconverted data and found that it is having those unwanted characters.
I've got the XML that is formed and it appears correct.
So something is happening in the transmission which i'm unable to detect.
Has anyoine come across any such situation or has a clue what is going wrong?

Shane

[Shane W]

Hi
I re-wrote the parser part of the code and it works fine now.
As we handle not more than 4k records ata time, the top to down parser that i wrote is giving decent enough performance, I'm open to suggestions though

Shane

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