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From: obarlow@metasolv.com (Oscar Barlow)
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Subject: Losing characters on Import
Date: 10 Oct 2001 12:49:07 -0700
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I have an export of a DMP file from Brazil that was done on Solaris
using oracle 8.1.6.  I run the import on Linux using oracle 8.1.7. 
All the characters unique to Portuguese where changed.  For example,
Não was changed to N?o.  If I ran the import on Windows2000 using
oracle 8.1.6, it worked fine.

Any suggestions?  A bug in Linux/oracle?

Thanks,
Oscar Barlow
obarlow@metasolv.com