Re: National characters and UTL_FILE

Vladimir,

Have you had any opportunity to look at the file immediately after it is produced from Oracle on the server (before being attached to the mail) - this might eliminate "uuenview"?

Can you display the special characters using dbms_output.put_line? If the problem is isolated to utl_file then perhaps you can consider spooling a statement to a file from SQL*Plus - In the past I have found this to give better performance anyway, although if you have a lot of complex logic you might need to create a temporary table with the results and then spool that table.

hth,

Mark.

                                                                                                                   
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Hello to everyone

I want to write national characters (Central European) to ASCII file, by using utl_file.

UTL_FILE is called within unix script, and afterwards ascii file (after applying "unix2dos") is sent as an attachment (by using "uuenview"). Both NLS_CHARACTERSET (EE8ISO8859P2) parameters are same within script (env.variable) and database.

But, instead of those specific letters I receive mail with useless content. I have then tried binary ftp of ASCII file, but to no avail.

I'm entering and reading those characters trough Forms with no problem at all.

So, is it possible to write CE characters (DOS extended character set actually) into ascii file?

Regional settings at Windows client (where mail or ftp are received) are appropriate (meaning, they are not set as USA...)...

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