Tony, George, Thanks a lot. It works. SQL> select value$ from props$ where name in ('NLS_LANGUAGE','NLS_TERRITORY','NLS_CHARACTERSET'); VALUE$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ENGLISH UNITED KINGDOM UTF8 export NLS_LANG=ENGLISH.UTF8 Thanks, Arul. -----Original Message----- From: Tony.Adolph@xxxxxx [mailto:Tony.Adolph@xxxxxx] Sent: 21 December 2004 10:04 To: Kumar,A,Arul,XGF3C C Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Export throws EXP-41 error. Doesn't look like a bug to me: your shell NLS settings don't match the database's. Try setting NLS_LANG=<some language>.UTF8 export NLS_LANG and try again. Cheers Tony arul.kumar@xxxxxx Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/21/2004 10:56 AM Please respond to arul.kumar@xxxxxx To oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Export throws EXP-41 error. Hi DBAs, I think it is a bug. But, just in case if anyone has a workaround for this problem. Export throws the following error when I use a DIRECT=3DY parameter. Has anyone faced this?=20 Environment : OS - HP -UX B.11.11 RDBMS - 8.1.7.4.0 /usr/sbin/mknod ARUL.pipe p nohup cat ARUL.pipe | gzip -9 > exp_svce_att_value.dmp.gz 2>&1 & nohup exp sidb_d01/xyz file=3DARUL.pipe tables=3Dsvce_att_value = compress=3Dn rows=3Dy direct=3Dy > exp_svce_att_value.log 2>&1 & cat exp_svce_att_value.log EXP-00041: Export done in server's UTF8, different from user's character set US7ASCII EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully Thanks, Arul. -- <//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l