Character set when exporting

From: Margaret Burwell <aj739_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
Date: 1998/02/13
Message-ID: <6c1fe4$f88@freenet-news.carleton.ca>#1/1

I have an Oracle 7.3 database on a Sun server running SunOS 5.5.1. The database was created with WE8PC850 as the character set. The .profile for the account includes the line

NLS_LANG=american_america.we8pc850 ; export NLS_LANG

My overnight export which is run using cron contains the following:

Connected to: Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.3.0.0 - Production Release With the distributed, replication, parallel query and Spatial Data options PL/SQL Release 2.3.3.0.0 - Production
Export done in US7ASCII character set

Can anyone enlighten me on why the characterset is changed?

Marg Received on Fri Feb 13 1998 - 00:00:00 CST