Re: Oracle 9i on Linux - DB character set

From: Yang <yg.yang_at_wanadoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:15:19 +0200
Message-ID: <9hdjec$of7$1@wanadoo.fr>

I've successfully installed Oracle 9i on Mandrake 8.0. And I've created my first instance without any error.
I've put UTF8 as character set during installation. hth.
Yang

Alex <A_Andriyashchenko_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:7f5a1fd2.0106271135.77a55b28_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Oracle 9i on Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4.5, glibc 2.2.3)
> box. Unfortunatelly when I tried to create new database I got error
> ORA-12701.
>
> Description on this error says:
> ---------------------------------------------
> ORA-12701 CREATE DATABASE character set is not known
> Cause: The character set specified in the CREATE DATABASE command does
> not exist on the system.
> Action: Refer to your Oracle operating system-specific documentation
> for more information about character sets on the system. Use a valid
> character set in the CREATE DATABASE command.
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I tried to use several different character sets (US7ASCII,
> WE8ISO8859P1-15) and ALWAYS got this error. But on Solaris 8 all
> character sets are working fine.
>
> How to get know what character sets support by Linux Mandrake 8.0?
>
> Thanks for any assumptions,
> Alex.
Received on Wed Jun 27 2001 - 17:15:19 CDT