<Fiso-8859-1?Q?RE:_Displaying_£_symbol__(pound_sterling)_Oracle_1? =?iso-8859-1?Q?0G?Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:34:31 -0400

maybe you should change your approach to solve this, I would use a numeric data type to store the ascii for the symbol and just make the conversion as required..

sql> select ascii('£') from dual;

ASCII('î')

       156

sql> create table money (quantity number, currency number);

Table created.

sql> insert into money values (100, 156);

1 row created.

sql> select quantity, chr(currency) from money;

  QUANTITY C
---------- -

       100 £

regards,
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Steve Farmer Sent: Martes, 30 de Agosto de 2005 07:13 a.m. To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Displaying £ symbol (pound sterling) Oracle 10G

Hi,

I am having problems storing and retrieving the £ (pound sterling) symbol ... I can store it as £ but it comes back as # !

If I change NLS_TERRITORY to 'UNITED KINGDOM" the currency symbol comes back as #

I think I may need to change the character set of the DB, has anyone had any experience with this?

Regards
Steve

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