TRANSLATE with UTF-8 literals was silently corrupted when compiled via Windows sqlplus (ĂăÂâÎî→����, ȘșȚț→????). Replaced with REPLACE/UNISTR for comma-below→cedilla normalization + CONVERT US7ASCII. Also applied strip_diacritics to localitate/judet in TIER 1 lookup and locality search (was only on strada), fixing 'FĂLTICENI' vs 'FALTICENI' BINARY mismatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>