sorting column

Hello,

when i do an orber by on a varchar2 column, the result is apparently sorted using EBCDIC and not ASCII ('A' is before '0') I have to add ascii(my_column) to get column sorted by ASCII. Is it normal or my database is not correctly configured ?

Thanks.

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