Re: Problems with NLS_LANG settings

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:04:14 +0100, "Ralf Pickart" <ralf.pickart.NOSPAM_at_gmx.net> wrote:

>Hi Sybrand,
>
>"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > If the
>strange feeling this has to do with your MS-DOS codepage
>> settings. Remember the MODE command?
>
>Hmm.... when I think about it... I remember! I will try it!
>
>> AFAIK you still need to use it to support codepage 850 which is
>> equivalent to latin-1 which is equivalent to we8iso8859p1.
>> UTF8 may be a similar case, but then again the (cut-down) DOS shell
>> might not support 2-byte charactersets at all.
>
>I know that the DOS-Shell doesn't support multibyte charsets but all the
>characters of WE8ISO8859P1 should work, especially the german 'ÄÖÜäöüß' or
>some scandinavian special characters.
>
>Greetings from Bavaria
>Ralf
>
>
Yup, but that's codepage 850! US7ASCII = 437, WE8ISO8859P1 = 850

Best regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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