Re: Characterset / conversion problem

  • From: Lou Fangxin <anysql@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nora.bernhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:33:49 +0800

If you did not use NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NCLOB, then you can ignore the 
NLS_CHARACTERSET.

 On 9/15/05, BERNHARD Nora <nora.bernhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> > NLS_LANG = .WE8ISO8859P15
> > In other words set your NLS_LANG environment setting the same as the
> NLS
> > settings in your database.
> 
> Oh, thanks for the great hint! The parameter NLS_LANG was not at all set
> for the (os) oracle user. I set it according to your example, and
> everything is fine now, the import worked and I still have all my
> special characters *yippie*.
> 
> > Go at the end for UTF16, it will cost you more database space but you
> > have everything checked for the future (only check at regular
> intervals
> > if all client, database, middletier have the same characterset)
> 
> This isn't possible. According to metalink note 276914.1, " From 9i
> onwards the NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET can have only 2 values: UTF8 or
> AL16UTF16 who are Unicode charactersets."
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Nora
> 
> 
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