Re: NLS support in Linux Oracle

Hi Peter,
You might be missing something.
On other Unix ports during the installation you have to specify your language.
If you specify the default the other libraries and message files will NOT be installed.
There is a view v$nls_valid_values which tells you which settings are allowed in your installation)
Also, you probably need to set the NLS_LANG environment variable in your .profile

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Peter Duffy wrote in message ...
>I'm currently trying to get an Oracle client (8.0.5.1) under Linux
>(RH5.2) to talk to an Oracle8i server on Solaris.
>
>Last week, I had it working, and things were looking good. However,
>we've just had to rebuild the server to use the UK English character set
>(NLS_LANG='ENGLISH_UNITED KINGDOM.WE8ISO8859P15'): having done this,
>obviously, the client and the server have problems communicating.
>However, when I came to alter the client to bring it into synch with the
>server, I found that apparently UK English is not supported by Oracle
>for Linux!! (at any rate, it doesn't appear in the NLS list.)
>
>Has anyone else hit this, and if so, is there a workaround? (Or am I
>missing something?)
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>TIA
>--
>Peter Duffy
Received on Sat Jun 26 1999 - 04:51:02 CDT