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What is the purpose of the option Oracle UTF-8 Encoding and why should I change it from DEFAULT?

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What is the purpose of the option Oracle UTF-8 Encoding and why should I change it from DEFAULT?

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, TOYS passes all data to / from the Oracle server as UTF-8. TOYS translates the UTF-8 sequences into Unicode (UTF-16 encoded) which it uses internally. TOYS will raise the above error if it encounters invalid UTF-8 sequences in the data passed to it by Oracle.