turn off character set conversion in a session

From: <cocoa1826_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:55:59 GMT
Message-ID: <7etj4b$9e1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

Is there anyway to turn character set conversion off for a session? I'm storing unicode data, but the database charset may not be unicode. If NLS_LANG is set to UTF8 charset, it won't do conversions, but it would be nice if there were something like Sybase's 'set char_convert off'.

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