Character Set / Encrypted text question

Dear List,

I have a question for the character set guru's out there...

We are trying to store encrypted text from a Forte application into a varchar2 column in Oracle (8.1.7.4). When Forte retrieves the string a couple of the characters appear to have changed value. I assume we are experiencing some kind of character set limitation. Does anyone have any ideas about how we might work around this issue? I have included the NLS section from out init.ora section for reference.

The only workaround we can think of is converting the string to hex values and reassembling these into a long string and then storing that result. Does this sound reasonable (assuming it's not a simple character set change).

Please keep the help simple - I have never had to be concerned with character sets before and don't really understand all of the terminology.

# NLS settings

nls_date_format                 = "DD-MON-RRRR"
nls_sort                        = BINARY
nls_language                    = AMERICAN
nls_numeric_characters          = ".,"

Thanks in advance,

Mark.
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