title: How to read a UTF-8 character with External Table correctly
body: <p>I have a CSV file encoded in uft8. There is text in a field of the record</p>
  
  <p>In the text are characters that are coded with two characters.
  e.g. in the word <code>Österreich</code>
  Character <code>Ö</code> is encoded as <code>O</code> and <code>¨</code> and not as <code>Ö</code></p>
  
  <p>If I open the file in the editor, then I see the correct word <code>Österreich</code>, </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/i7qE4.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/i7qE4.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>if I look at the file by selecting the external table, then I see <code>O¨sterreich</code>.</p>
  
  <p>When creating the external table I already added the ACCESS  Parameter <code>CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>ACCESS PARAMETERS (
   RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE 
   CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8 
   STRING SIZES ARE IN BYTES  
   skip 1
   FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LDRTRIM 
   MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL   
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a possibility or a parameter  tell oracle to merge the two characters in the output to one?</p>