Re: NLS - Displaying special Swedish characters

IIRC, all "non-standard" (read: all non-US) characters have to be encoded. I would think you have a routine, that translates æ, Å, å, etc to the corresponding HTML escaped characters.
That would be a programmatic thing - you write your own routine, or use a supplied routine, in e.g. PL/SQL. Display settings and database settings are something different, and will not influence webbrowsers in displaying the above (escaped HTML) characters.

I would suggest setting trace_level_client=16 in sqlnet.ora on the client side, and fire up a simple login.
You will see the characters sets being exchanged, as well as alter session set nls_lang commends (if appropiate). Maybe that will give a clue in the direction to look for - I assume you now know 400% sure your database stores in the correct charset, and was created as such, etc, etc.

Steve wrote:

> I have been in contact with Oracle about this for nearly 1 month, and they
> are now clutching at straws. So far, we have discovered that the database
> is storing the characters correctly as I have sent oracle the block to
> check. They now think it is something to do with the way it is being
> displayed on the screen, stty settings.
>
> But would this effect the result on the web site??
>
> I am using America_American.UTF8
>
> 8.1.6 on Sun 5.6
>
> Any comments greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
>
> Steve.

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Hth,

Frank van Bortel