Re: Inserting/Updating Unicode Data
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sep 10, 12:13 pm, rob <rob_pan..._at_asdsoftware.com> wrote:
> Joel,
>
> Thanks for you reply.
>
> Here are my NLS parameters:
> =====================
> PARAMETER VALUE
> NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
> NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
> NLS_CURRENCY $
> NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA
> NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,
> NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
> NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
> NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
> NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
> NLS_SORT BINARY
> NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
> NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
> NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
> NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
> NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $
> NLS_COMP BINARY
> NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
> NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
> NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
> NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 9.2.0.3.0
>
> We have a .NET application that can run against a SQL Server or Oracle
> 9i / 10g database. This application allows user to preview data for
> many languages on the same form (using Arial Unicode MS font). In sql
> server we are not having any issues inserting / previewing data from
> the NVarchar fields, but with Oracle once the data is saved and
> retrieved the the database upside down questons marks are being
> shown.
>
> I don't completely understand why I would have to change the client
> "NLS_LANG", due to the fact that our client is application is a
> unicode app. I thought the whole point of using "NVarchars" was to
> allow the storing of National characters.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
Yes, but if you don't set it, you get the default 7 bit american ascii. I think, it's been too long since I've played, please peruse metalink, like Note:227336.1 and the one I said before.
You shouldn't have to go to the extreme Adrian said, though it might make things simpler. Somewhere in the docs it explains when to choose National characters and when to do the whole db character set.
jg
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