Check the following links. It would help you on the NLS_LANG settings and other NLS settings.
http://www.oracle.com/tech
http://www.oracle.com/tech
Good luck :)
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I have 2 machines. A server which has UNIX, Oracle 10g v2. And a client machine that has Windows XP Professional, oracle 9i client. I don't have access to server machine. I can access only client machine.
People has created a database on the server machine and used the character set UTF8. And my Windows client character set is WE8MSWIN1252.
I ran a script throught the SQL Worksheet to create a table and store unicode characters in it. I ran this script on server. When I look at the data in this table through any oracle tool on the Server I see the same unicdoe characters come up no problem. If I run the same program on the client machine the unicode characters comes up all scrambled english characters like some replacement character(¿). I have to see the the same unicode value in my client machine. It means my windows client has to support that unicode character.
Does anyone know what I have to do?
Thank you
Suriya
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Check the following links. It would help you on the NLS_LANG settings and other NLS settings.
http://www.oracle.com/tech
http://www.oracle.com/tech
Good luck :)
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by: JankovskyPosted on 2008-09-28 at 00:42:28ID: 22590184
Check settings of clinet - WE8MSWIN1252 for each existing ORACLE_HOME on your client E\ORACLE\K EY_OraDb10 g_home1\NL S_LANG E\ORACLE\K EY_OraDb11 g_home1\NL S_LANG
(registry)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
...
May be it remains one of them with wrong settings.
Another possible cause could be - your application requires UTF8 unicode and you have to use cluent settings for UTF8 instead of WE8MSWIN1250.