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Re: Lost 'umlaute' during import to 8.1.7 under Linux

From: Stephan Bressler <stephan.bressler_at_siemens.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:13:57 +0200
Message-ID: <b9d71f$3u0$1@news.mch.sbs.de>


Hi,
> CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1
> NATIONAL CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1;
>
> What did we missed?
> Do we have to set NLS_LANG to GERMAN_DIN_GERMANY.WE8ISO8859P1 before
> creating the database?

The charset WE8ISO8859P1 supports umlaute. You should make sure that NLS_LANG ist set to something like GERMANY_GERMAN.WE8ISO8859P1 in the shell you run the imp.
I assume you used US7ASCII for the import. Stephan Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 04:13:57 CDT

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