Re: Skripts with Unux and german special characters

"Nicolas Bronke" <Nicolas_bronke_at_web.de> wrote in message news:<2p69dnFhgdluU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...
> With some of my collegues we entcountered a problem with german characters
> under Linux.
>
> Normally we are loading our scripts from a windows client. There we did not
> have any problems. But now someone want to load the scripts from linux using
> sqlplus. Here we are comming to the problem. Even if I send
>
> select convert('äöü','WE8ISO8859P1') from dual;
>
> we did not get the german characters. I search in Google and discussed it
> with others. Sure it have to be a setting problem, but I did not find the
> way how to set the parameters (even not the person, who has much more
> experiences with Linux).
>
> Can some give us a helpful hint?

Sounds like the db doesn't know where to look, or it's not there if it does. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529/ch1.htm#41083

jg

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