No, sorry I should have specified - all servers run Linux (CentOS). I believe the client's development systems are running Windows, but that doesn't matter so much. I did think it was odd, now that you mention it, that Oracle recommends a Windows character set on Linux, but that is what it's doing.
janine On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Paul Drake wrote:
All clients and app servers running MS Windows? On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Janine Sisk <janine@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I am migrating a website from Oracle 8i to 11g, and one of the snags I'verun into is the character set.The old database has both NLS_CHARACTERSET and NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET set to US7ASCII. This character set seems to have disappeared in 11g. I triedmaking a database using Oracle's defaults, which are WE8MSWIN1252 andAL16UTF16 respectively. The data looks ok so far, but my client is worriedabout problems we just haven't seen yet.My question: are there other choices for the two settings which would give us a better chance of having unmangled data than the ones Oracle chose? If it matters, he's worried about the diacritics specifically, though I don'tthink he has actually found any yet that look wrong. Also, a couple of related questions:In 8i, I set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT by adding a line to the init.ora file. In my Googling I have seen suggestions to set this by writing out a pfile, editing that, then converting it back to an spfile, basically doing the same thing I used to do but with the added steps of translating from and to thebinary format. This seems clunky; isn't there a better way?Lastly, the client noticed that NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT has changed, not to his liking. Would I set this in the same way as NLS_DATE_FORMAT, whatever thatturns out to be? Thanks for being patient with some very newbie questions! janine -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l-- http://www.completestreets.org/faq.html http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/pamanual.pdf
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