What marks?
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Author: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 8/27/2002 1:13 PM
See, this is why this stuff confuses me.. shouldn't UTF8 accept the
diacritical marks?
argh... in any case, it's working now
Rachel
- "SARKAR, Samir" <Samir.SARKAR_at_nottingham.sema.slb.com> wrote:
> Rachel,
>
> The Unix server generally looks for the character set
> AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 unless you specify it explicitly otherwise by
> setting the environmental
> variable
> before the installation commences.
>
> Samir
>
> Samir Sarkar
> Oracle DBA
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> 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
>
> --- Ron Thomas <rthomas_at_hypercom.com> wrote:
> >
> > Make sure your environment NLS_LANG matches how the data is encoded
> > in your flat file.
> >
> > Also, does the database characterset handle whatever special
> > characters you are trying to import?
> >
> > Ron Thomas
> > Hypercom, Inc
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> > I am not, by any means, a SQL*Loader expert (Jonathan, I keep
> meaning
> > to get your book!)
> >
> > Here's the thing:
> >
> > I have a flat file with character data that includes special
> > characters
> > (like accents and diacritical marks over letters). When I load the
> > data
> > in using SQL*Loader, the special characters disappear and are
> > replaced
> > by the letter (so Dvorák goes on as Dvorak).
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> > How can I get the data in as it should be? I've been reading and
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