Re: Special Characters Created on a UNIX system with HP Terminal on US7ASCII

Laurenz Albe wrote:

> ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET does not change the contents of the database.
> It only changes the database character set, which tells Oracle how to
> interpret the bytes stored in textual columns and stored procedure sources.
>
> A byte 0x80 stored in the database will remain 0x80, but if you change
> the database character set from US7ASCII to WE8MSWIN1252, it will change
> its meaning from garbage to a Euro sign.

Your're absolutely right, I beg your pardon... I made this experiment a few days ago but I saw incorrect results because of the wrong settings of my PC's NLS_LANG client variable.

Thank you for the explaination. Kind regards,

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CdL