Re: Characterset on Windows and Oracle

Three weeks? They are getting big, eh?
You need to verify the characterset of your database is WE8ISO8859P1. This is the so-called Latin-1 alphabet and covers diacritical characters for the major West-European languages.
You also need to make sure your systems use characterset 850, instead of the default 437.
The characterset of the database can be retrieved by select * from prop$ (or props$, not sure about this)
Hope this e-mail arrives before the response of support :)

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Alessio Di Ruscio <alessio.diruscio_at_etaisdn.inet.it> wrote in message news:7p8ogv$39qa$1_at_stargate1.inet.it...
> Hallo
> i've a problem with deutch character.
> I've an Oracle Server 7.3.4.3.0 and an Oracle Developer 6.0 32 bit in a
> client with Windows 95 and another one on Windows 98 and the last one with
> Windows nt 4.0 Workstation.
> I need to write deutch characters ( Ü, Ö and so on ) from forms60 and and
> make "character " reports with report server. The problem is that the
> cheracter "alt+154" (Ü) is registred with value 220 as UNICODE map and
when
> i try to make reports using character report, and not bitmap, and writyng
> directly on the printer port I see the ascii cheracter alt+220 ( _ ).
> If i use Oracle forms 30 in client server Dos the character alt+154 is
> registred as alt+154 and print correctly.
> The client with this problem will convert all procedures from Forms30 to
> Forms60 and in database will be different values from the same characters.
> How can i do to print character reports?
> I called Oracle support but it's three weeks that i'm waiting for an
answer
> Please HELP ME
>
> Alessio.diruscio_at_etaisdn.inet.it
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 14:29:21 CDT