Re: OCI and character sets

The NLS_LANG environment variable was the culprit. Thanks for your response
Rob Blank
>==========Torfrid Leek, 1/3/96==========
>
>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.
>Which are the "western european characters" you are missing, and
>how are they
>represented? Not at all? 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,
>
>Regards, Torfrid Leek
>
>torfrid.leek_at_usit.uio.no
Received on Thu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00:00 CET