hi,
xmldom accepts win1251 but deals with UTF-8 only
my Client app. will be not happy seeing UTF-8 in incoming XML messages
so
--UTF-8 -> Win1251
--select ascii('Ð')*65535+ascii('¹') from dual =13631465
select chr(ascii(to_single_byte(chr(13631465 using nchar_cs)))) from dual
is where any better method?