Re: Oracle, Clarion, & the Russian alphabet ?

                Hi there,

Georgianna Strode (strode_at_opus.freac.fsu.edu) wrote:
: Greetings!
 

: We've got a problem with moving data from Clarion 2.10 DOS to Oracle.
: The program and data in Clarion are in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. We
: are trying to move some of the data to an Oracle database residing on an
: RS6000 machine running AIX by using SQL*Loader.
 

: What special process do we have to go through in order to move this
: Russian data. Right now when we move the data some of the Russian Cyrillic
: characters are lost.

	First of all , do you have support for cyrillic installed ? 
	The Oracle I have here has something like SU***RU coding
	tables , which possibly stand for ( former) Soviet Union - 
	Russian Language .
	Next , there are a few coding tables for Cyrillic in Russia :

	so called KOI-8 ( Unix platform )
	and ALT ( MSDOS PCs ).

	At least you should have 8-bit clean ORACLE  ( and probably OS ).





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RK Received on Sun Apr 23 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST