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Re: Some characters are not indexed

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:06:14 +0100
Message-ID: <0vl4u11v1v1gel4ifnu515h3c5fj1sov5c@4ax.com>


On 2 Feb 2006 04:58:45 -0800, boguslaw.pazur_at_marcos-bis.com.pl wrote:

>SELECT * FROM vendor ORDER BY name
>
>cause result
>
>Name
>?AZ
>AZ
>BR
>?MARC
>MARC
>
>It seems like '?' is omitted. Maybe I'm wrong and it's question of
>sorting not indexing?
>
>TIA
>
>Boguslaw Pazur

It's a question of an incorrect characterset. The question marks refer to characters that can't be displayed on the screen properly. Either the NLS_LANG on your client is incorrect or the characterset of your database.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Thu Feb 02 2006 - 13:06:14 CST

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