Re: Export character set

You have to set the character set in the environment. You don't have to change the character set in the database. In UNIX:

set NLS_LANG=American_America:WE8ISO8859P1 export NLS_LANG

hth,
Ruth
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> Hello
> I would like to ask you if you know about possibility to change an export
> file made by exp to change reported character set.
> I heard that it was used as a trick when database character set was needed
> to be changed. I would like to use it to avoid character set conversion
> during import to avoid loosing of special characters.
> Could you give me some more informations about it?
> Thank you in advance
> Ivo Libal
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