Re: setting character set for imp

> True enough. imp doesn't seem to have a way to set charset, so I set an
> environment variable called NLS_LANG to .US7ASCII and tried again - same
> result.

Really?

As far as I know the data have to be converted properly to WE8ISO8859P1 ....

export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII imp ....

Try with some select after the import (this time with NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 because the data will be already converted):

HTH
Dimitre Radoulov

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