There variable you set in your .profile on the specify character set of
database you want to connect....NLS_LANGUAGE??.. it's in the manuals..I
think that's all you have to do.
Hope this help.
--
Minh Giang
mpg_at_fast.net
david flinn/jennifer opp <flopp_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<32E0FAD6.140E_at_ix.netcom.com>...
> Hi,
>
> I've finally insured that my 8bit european data is correctly
> loaded into my server. But when I use sqlplus to make a query,
> it butchers the data. For instance, a german umlaut is munged
> to be a question mark. I check the data, and it is octal \131,
> but sqlplus can't map it correctly. It seems that no matter what
> I tell my unix shell to do, sqlplus seems to only print out 7 bit
> representations.
>
> Is there any way to correctly retreive my 8bit characters so
> I can slap them into an HTML page correctly?
>
> Oracle 7.2.3
> Solaris 2.5
> Perl 5.0
> Netscape fasttrack
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> david
>
Received on Sun Jan 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CST
