Unicode to Ascii Oracle 10g

I have a view created in Oracle 10g that outputs one field, which is returned Unicode.

My clients have old ODBC drivers that do not recognize Unicode.

How do I convert this field to ASCII ?
shelbyinfotechAsked:
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Franck PachotConnect With a Mentor Commented:
Hi,
If the NLS_LANG is set (properly), the conversion should be automatic.
Regards,
Franck.
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slightwv (䄆 Netminder) Commented:
Depending on what unicode characters are in the data, it may not be possible.  For example, how would you convert a chinese character to simple ascii?

Can you provide some sample data and expected results?
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shelbyinfotechAuthor Commented:
All the data will be ASCII
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awking00Commented:
What does your view code look like?
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slightwv (䄆 Netminder) Commented:
>>All the data will be ASCII

Then why can't you just select it?  an 'A' in a unicode database should be an 'A' when you select it out.

I agree with awking00, let's take a look at your view code.
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shelbyinfotechAuthor Commented:
Once selected in SQL Plus...yeah I get the data...I can't get it from the old odbc driver that msaccess is using
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slightwv (䄆 Netminder) Commented:
Try setting NLS_LANG on the Client's client side as franckpachot suggested.
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shelbyinfotechAuthor Commented:
Where would that be ? In the Oracle Client or ODBC ?
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slightwv (䄆 Netminder)Connect With a Mentor Commented:
It is an environment variable Oralce uses (registry in Windows):
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch3globenv.htm#NLSPG189
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slightwv (䄆 Netminder) Commented:
I doubt this will solve the issue since the Unicode is likely coming from the default database characterset but wanted to throw it out there just in case it will trick the ODBC drivers.

The CONVERT sql function:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/functions034.htm#SQLRF00620
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shelbyinfotechAuthor Commented:
Thanks ....just had to find WHERE in the registry...btw it was in ORACLE_ALL_HOMES
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Franck PachotCommented:
sqlplus and odbc should not use the same NLS_LANG as DOS and Windows codepage are different.
Are you sure that you have the right encoding in the database ? You should use DUMP function to check.
Maybe the data was entered with an incorrect setting.
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