Hi all, I'm looking for character sets and collation with Oracle. About character set from the shell I have: $ locale character utf-8 and $ echo $NLS_LANG AL32UTF8 Now I'm also looking for collation, ie the comparaison between strings and I've found other two environment variables: NLS_COMP and NLS_SORT, but I don't understand how to set them permanently (if it's possible). If I use an alter session statement to set NLS_SORT and NLS_COMP the change is conscripted to a single user session. So, exists a way to set the two paramethers permanently? Thanks, Simone Saravalli -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l