The converter doesn't seem to remove the second byte which is zero. ( 66 00 6F 00 6F 00 equals "foo" ) As far as I know UTF-8 uses only one byte per ascii character. How do I get this thing to remove the zero byte?

12:20 0           RDBMS DRIBBLE Convert from 5, size is 90, content: 66 00 6F 00 6F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

hex    binary    dec 0    0000    0 1    0001     1 2    0010     2 3    0011     3 4    0100     4 5    0101     5 6    0110     6 7    0111     7 8    1000     8

9    1001     9 A    1010     10 B    1011     11 C    1100     12 D    1101     13 E    1110     14 F    1111     15

*** How it should be:

ORACLE> #B01100110  ;  HEX: 66 102 ORACLE> (char-code #\f)            102

*** How it is

* (select-symtag2) 13:34 0           RDBMS DEBUG   About to BEGIN transaction in database #<ORACLE {1002AB8041}> 13:34 0             SQL DRIBBLE SELECT SYMTAG_KEY FROM symtag 13:34 0           RDBMS DEBUG   Executing "SELECT SYMTAG_KEY FROM symtag" STYLE-WARNING: Undefined alien: "OCIGetInstantClientPackageName" STYLE-WARNING: Undefined alien: "OCIGetInstantClientPackageName" 13:34 0           RDBMS DEBUG   Connecting in transaction #<#<STANDARD-CLASS NIL {10030AFD91}> :begin-executed-p #t {1003E4FDA1}> 13:34 0           RDBMS DEBUG   Logging on in transaction #<#<STANDARD-CLASS NIL {10030AFD91}> :begin-executed-p #t {1003E4FDA1}> 13:34 0           RDBMS DEBUG   Preparing command: "SELECT SYMTAG_KEY FROM symtag" 13:34 0           RDBMS DRIBBLE Statement is allocated 13:34 0           RDBMS DRIBBLE Retrieving column: name="??????????", type=1, size=44 13:34 0           RDBMS DEBUG   Fetching "??????????" from buffer at index 0 13:34 0           RDBMS DRIBBLE Convert from 5, size is 90, content: 66 00 6F 00 6F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..

#<(AND (VECTOR T 8) (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) {1003F01CBF}> * (setq x *)

#<(AND (VECTOR T 8) (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) {1003F01CBF}> * (elt (elt x 0) 0)

"???" * (elt * 0)

#\U6600   ; this should be the character #\f * (setq y *)

#\U6600 * (char-code y)

26112 ; this should be the char-code 102 *

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