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Rachel,
I think that you are seeing this behavior, because when on Unix, if NLS_LANG is not set in the environment, it defaults to US7ASCII, which does not include the extended characters. The characterset shown in NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS is the database's characterset, not the charset which the client picks up from the environment:
1* select * from NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS
PARAMETER VALUE
------------------------------ ----------------------------------------
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 8.1.7.3.0
18 rows selected.
SAMTESTN> !echo $NLS_LANG
AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII
On Windows, however, I think the default is WE8ISO8859P1.
HTH
Gary
Gary Kirsh
Next Extent Consulting
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:48 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Ron,
You were dead on correct (send me your snail mail address offlist and I'll send you a signed copy of Oracle9i DBA 101)
Anjo, you were right too but you already have, or should be getting, a copy of the book. I'll buy you a beer at the next conference :)
Very strange. I was loading ON the server itself, not from my client. Database is 9.2, my client on my PC is 8.1.7. The load worked from my PC but not from the server. The pertinent default NLS parameters, from NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS, when I do NOT set NLS_LANG are
PARAMETER VALUE ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16 NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 9.2.0.1.0
which looks right but the load doesn't work. When I set the Unix environment variable NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1, the load works properly. Anyone want to explain THAT to me?
and the docs are, as usual, clear as mud. I figured it out with the hints from Ron and Anjo and testing inserts from my PC and the server directly.
Hope this helps some other poor soul in the future!
Rachel
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