Re: Problem with german: Umlaute

From: Franz-Josef Vorspohl <fj.vorspohl_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:58:46 +0200
Message-ID: <lipobusdp0qkshq376ks9gq7bmagdq0lml@4ax.com>

Hi Sybrand,

Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:48:05 +0200, Franz-Josef Vorspohl

>If you didn't set the NLS_LANG environment variable or registry entry,
>the characterset will be set to US7ASCII.
>
>In 8.0.5 your database was in US7ASCII and you didn't set NLS_LANG.
>This means Oracle just didn'tt check bit 8 at all. Hence, as your
>terminal supported 8-bit you didn't experience any problems. You were
>just lucky.
>
>Conclusion: check NLS_LANG

thx for help :-)

It was was a bad entry for NLS_LANG

Regards Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 12:58:46 CDT