Yes you should have NLS_LANG=american_america.UTF8
where the language and territory are whatever the database was originally set
up in as this is the language that messages from the database will be returned
in.
Ken Shan wrote:
On 2000-12-14T11:55:57-0800, Rami Friedman wrote:
Could I instead rely on the database driver to convert from the
foreign charset to unicode?
I don't see why not. Have you looked at the Oracle documentation for
its NLS support? The Oracle driver should be happy to perform the
encoding conversions you require based on your setting of environment
variables and so on.
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