Re: French characters

When I create the database, is this when I specify the character set. Or is it done when Oracle is installed. I do not want to reinstall Oracle. I would like to create a new database with the French character set and leave my other SIDs alone. I use dbassit to create databases. I presume this will alow you to specify the character set.

John

"Richard" <qaz1521_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<b1m7qg$76c$1$8302bc10_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
> John,
>
> Have you set the NLS_LANG environment variable on your client? This
> defines, among other things, the character set you are using locally. If
> Oracle thinks you are using a character set that does not support accents, I
> believe it will translate accented characters into their unaccented
> equivalents.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> "John Leslie" <johnleslie_at_madasafish.com> wrote in message
> news:4412dd31.0302030744.4528a5e0_at_posting.google.com...
> > I need to include some French words in the data on my database. What
> > do I need to do to get these to display properly when I do a select in
> > SQL Worksheet? Basically the frech accent characters are not being
> > displayed.
> >
> > John
Received on Wed Feb 05 2003 - 08:36:10 CST