Re: Export / Import - Unix

Hi Maitee,

Try setting the NLS_LANGUAGE environment variable to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1.
My experience on AIX tells it defaults to US7ASCII, regardless of the characterset of the database. This is probably why your diacritical characters are translated.
BTW: If you use a direct export on Unix, NLS_LANGUAGE is ignored, data is always exported in the characterset of the database.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Maitee Alexandria wrote:

> We have two database servers. One back-up server running NT ( ORACLE 7.3 )
> and the other running HP - UNIX (ORACLE 8 ) in production.
>
> We have been able to import / export information from NT to UNIX using
> IMPORT/EXPORT UTILITIES bundled with ORACLE 7.3 for NT without any loss of
> accentuation.
>
> The problem happens when we try doing the same using IMPORT/EXPORT UTILITIES
> for ORACLE 8. Everytime we do an Import/Export from whichever server to each
> other executing ORACLE 8 UTILITIES at the Unix server all the accentuation
> in table contents is lost (i.e. '?' instead of 'Ç').
>
> The strangest is that when we export a correctly accentuated table from
> ORACLE 8 (i.e: customer ), drop the table from the database and then
> import it back from file .dmp, the accentuation is also lost.
>
> What´s the problem ? Is there a BUG for IMPORT / EXPORT for UNIX ?
>
> Obs.: The both databases have the same character set. ( WE8ISO5589P1 ).
Received on Mon Sep 14 1998 - 15:48:30 CDT