Is there some reason AL32UTF8 won't work for you? If your clients all use WE8ISO8859P1, just set NLS_LANG accordingly. And, in the future, if you want to support languages outside the scope of WE8ISO8859P1, it won't be a problem. -Mark From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eriovaldo Andrietta Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:03 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Install Oracle XE with character set WE8ISO8859P1 Hi friends, I installed Oracle XE and the tool did not show the screen for changing the character set. It installed automatically as below. NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8 Character set I need to install with WE8ISO8859P1. What need I do in order the tool shows to me the screen where I can choose the WE8ISO8859P1 ? Regards Eriovaldo