Re: Multi-language support
- From: Scott Dial <smd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Oracle L (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:39:18 -0500
Your client needs to support the character set as well. I doubt your
installation of SQLPlus is in russian. One way we tested it was with the
language packs of a web browser, etc.
smd
+++ Mercadante, Thomas F [17/12/04 15:43 -0500]:
> All,
>
>
> I need to support the entry and display of multiple languages from the
> database (9.2.0.4 on IBM AIX). I created the database with the AL32UTF8
> character set (which supports American, Russian, Spanish & French).
>
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> We tried entering Russian text. We think it is entered ok - one of the
> developers says it shows up as Russian characters.
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>
>
> But I can't display the correct character set on my screen. I tried setting
> the NLS_LANG environmental both in Unix and on my desktop.
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>
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> >From my desktop, I get ??? from the database column where the russian data
> is stored. And when I select to_char(sysdate,'month') from dual, I get
> gibberish characters back. It looks like it is trying to translate the
> chars to something, but it's lost.
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> On Unix,
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> I get similar results. Nothing that looks like Russian characters to me.
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> Anybody done this successfully?
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> Thanks,
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> Thomas Mercadante
>
> 5-9248
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> Oracle Certified Professional
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