Thanks. Igor., I looked up nls_currency on the metalink, but I can't find a list of acceptable values. Do you happen to know where it is located? thank you Gene Gurevich "Igor Neyman" <ineyman@perceptr on.com> To Sent by: <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx oracle-l-bounce@f >, "oracle-l" reelists.org <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc 04/26/2006 02:27 Subject PM RE: UK characters Please respond to ineyman@perceptro n.com Lookup NLS_CURRENCY -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:15 PM To: oracle-l Subject: UK characters Hello: I'm trying to let our users from UK to enter british pound into the database. Currently this sigh is being converted to a question mark. I have tried modifying nls_languate and nls_territory but without success and ORacle manual is not very helpful. Can someone refer me to an article that explains this? thank you Gene Gurevich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l