Hi,
We have a requirement to support I18N & L10 (Internationalization & locatization). We have done this by leveraging the utf-8 format storage support of Oracle. Now that we are migrating to use Hibernate I would like to find out when the data stored in Oracle DB using UTF-8 format would be retrieved as such or any transromation occurs in Hibernate while constructing the domain objects(JDBC does not transform the data). If any one had done any work on this using Hibernate, please let me know the details as it would help us a lot.

thanks much.
TM

In other words (and just so you won't misunderstand ;)

Hibernate core does never ever transform strings in any way.

...but UserType and the user can do whatever he it wants ;)