oracle strange beaviour

From: Mario Caputo <buatt_at_caltanet.it>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:09:10 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <0d98a126184441c2fe1b3cdac94fcb72.50657@mygate.mailgate.org>

hi to all,

I have installed a 9.0.1 oracle on SuSE Linux 7.2. I set all environment variables on /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh (that is called by /etc/rc.d/oracle). If a do "set" command i can see NLS_LANG variable correctly set to "italian"

...

NLS_CHARACTERSET=WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_LANG=italian
...

All seems ok BUT... if I execute imp or exp utility I see messages in english (and they uses ASCII char encoding).
Now is the strange: if I do

export NLS_LANG=italian

the NLS_LANG value has THE SAME VALUE THAN BEFORE but now imp and exp work correctly in italian!! HOW ?
Probably I've not been clear in mind how environment variables works.. :(

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