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"Alex" <agrasic_at_sympatico.ca> writes:
> What would be a solution to this problem besides upgrading SQLPlus?
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> > > > > Well it's not the local SQLPlus on the machine I'm having a problem
> > > > > with anymore, it's the SQLPlus Client on Windows that won't connect
> > > > > properly
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> > ORA-12705 ?invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified?
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I got this error when the NLS_LANG environment variable was incorrectly set. For e.g. english messages and iso8859-1 charset, I had to set it to american_america.we8iso8859p1
If I didn't set it at all, the logon went fine, but the charset wasn't too good ;-)
-- --Fredrik In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetency -- The Peter PrincipleReceived on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 18:09:22 CST