Re: French Characters

From: Roelof den Dekker <roelof.den.dekker_at_cmg.nl>
Date: 1997/12/30
Message-ID: <01bd1515$46b4ea40$02c2100a@roelofdd.att.cmg.nl>#1/1

How do you enter these characters asked them back ?

I have had some problems viewing the right characters when using UNIX sql*plus.

omar <omar_at_quadrasys.com> wrote in article <34A71C72.AD4CF1F_at_quadrasys.com>...
> Hi,
>
> We are using a trial version of Oracle; we deal with french characters
> in our database.
> When we created the database through "cr_databaseName.sql" we used this
> value for this
> parameter:
> character set "we8dec"
>
> After that we ran the database and entered these words which contain
> some french
> characters
> Rivière-du-Loup, Sept-Îles, Montréal, Québec
> when we tried to retrieve these word from the database we got this:
> Rivihre-du-Loup, Sept-Nles, Montrial ,Quibec
>
> What do we have to do to be able to enter french words and get back the
> same french
> words from the database?
>
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 30 1997 - 00:00:00 CST