Re: OCI and character sets

In article <4cdlq9$8t7_at_ratatosk.uio.no> torfridl_at_ulrik.uio.no (Torfrid Leek) writes:
>From: torfridl_at_ulrik.uio.no (Torfrid Leek)
>Subject: Re: OCI and character sets
>Date: 3 Jan 1996 10:29:29 GMT
 

>I have some thoughts, they may not be relevant, but since I have spent 4 weeks
>of my life with related problems:
>Have you set the environment variable NLS_LANG? It could be
>american_america.we8iso8859p1, american_america.we8dec, whatever your
>character set is.

Allow me to respond for Rob, since his PC is in poor health at the moment. Setting the NLS_LANG variable was the right solution. Things are much better now.

>Which are the "western european characters" you are missing, and how are they
>represented? Not at all? As question marks?

I believe they were coming out as question marks.

>If the 8th bit is being stripped, you could try stty -istrip. That did the
trick>for some of our clients.

>If your UNIX machine is an HP, they have a strange character set. We noticed
>this after a patch installation, and worked around by using a "standard"
xterm.>Let me know if you have any questions,

Ours isn't HP, so that's not the problem. We have NCR/AT&T machines.

Thanks for your help.

>Regards, Torfrid Leek
>torfrid.leek_at_usit.uio.no

Todd
Todd.Newman_at_daytonoh.attgis.com Received on Thu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00:00 CET