Hi I am facing a problem here I just can't figure out. The database is 11.1.0.7, running on Red Hat Linux 4 and the character set is WE8ISO8859P1. When running the query: select col1 from tab1 where col2 like '%zoran%' I get 'kort/zoran-đinđić' as an row, but when running select * from tab1 where col1 = 'kort/zoran-đinđić' I get no rows back. Both col1 and col2 is nvarchar2 Any suggestions? /johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l