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Re: LANG and NLS_LANG for UTF8

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 17 Feb 2006 07:44:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1140162276.864570@proxy.dienste.wien.at>


Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> You have to set NLS_LANG to the character set on the client side.
>> Usually that means that you should not set this variable at all.

>
> Fail to see this - it will default to what? US7ASCII?

It should default to the codepage that Oracle detects in the operating system.

I personally only found it necessary to set NLS_LANG in two cases:

Yours,
Laurenz Albe Received on Fri Feb 17 2006 - 01:44:38 CST

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