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Re: Character confusion

From: Cris Carampa <cris119_at_operamail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:10:24 +0200
Message-ID: <bj7kn2$pho$1@panco.nettuno.it>


Marcel Stör wrote:

> My environment is RedHat and 9i. If I enter German umlauts into a table
> through a GUI tool like DBAStudio and retrieve the same values with
> DBAStudio everything seems to be ok. However, if I query the same table from
> console with SQLPlus the umlauts are no umlauts anymore (ü turns to u, ö
> turns to o).

 From the linux shell, try:

export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1

or:

export NLS_LANG=GERMAN_GERMANY.WE8ISO8859P1

before executing the sqlplus binary.

HTH

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Cris Carampa (spamto:cris119_at_operamail.com)
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