Re: NLS question

  • From: David Robillard <david.robillard@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l mailing list <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:23:04 -0400

You might want to read MOS Doc ID 264157.1 - The correct NLS_LANG
setting in Unix Environments.

HTH,

David

> Jimmy,
>
>         NLS_CHARACTERSET=US7ASCII means 256 characters see 
> http://www.asciitable.com/
>
>
>     that's not 100% true.
>     only the first 127 char are defined.
>     That's what the 7 is standing for - ASCII 7-bit America
>
>     Yes, you can trick the DB to store some 8-bit values. This will
>     bring you into a huge load of fun.
>
>     sorry,
>      Martin
>
>
>
> Good catch! I don't why I typed 256 characters. Actually, it is 128
> characters - chr(0) to chr(127).
>
> I checked MOS and Oracle recommends using character set WE8MSWIN1252,
> which is a superset of WE8ISO8859P1, P9, P15 and US7ASCII.
>
> --
> Jimmy Brock
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