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WesternEuropean.
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size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Jerry C
[mailto:usidba_at_yahoo.com]Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:01
AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:
problem displaying umlaut character
Hi all,
I'm having problems displaying an umlaut
character correctly. For example:
create table umlaut(col1
varchar2(10)); Table created.
insert into umlaut
values('Brömmel'); 1 row created. select * from
umlaut where col1='Brömmel';
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size=2>COL1----------Brvmmel
My NLS parameters:
msuawo01> svrmgrl Oracle
Server Manager Release 3.1.5.0.0 - Production (c) Copyright 1997,
Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Oracle8i
Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.5.0.0 - ProductionWith the Partitioning and
Java optionsPL/SQL Release 8.1.5.0.0 - Production SVRMGR>
connect internalConnected.SVRMGR> show parameter
NLSNAME TYPE VALUE----------------------------------- ------- ------------------------------nls_calendar string nls_comp string nls_currency string nls_date_format
MM/DD/RRRR nls_date_language string nls_dual_currency string nls_iso_currency string nls_language
AMERICAN nls_numeric_characters string nls_sort string nls_territory
AMERICA nls_time_format string nls_time_tz_format string nls_timestamp_format stringnls_timestamp_tz_format
string
SQL> set linesize 125SQL>
select * from nls_database_parameters ;PARAMETER
VALUE------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NLS_LANGUAGEAMERICANNLS_TERRITORY AMERICANLS_CURRENCY $NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICANLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS .,NLS_CHARACTERSET UTF8NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIANNLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-YYNLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICANNLS_SORT BINARYNLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AMPARAMETER
VALUE------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMATDD-MON-YY HH.MI.SSXFF AMNLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZMNLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-YY HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TNLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $NLS_COMPNLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 8.1.5.0.018 rows selected.A virtual homebrew (British Pale Ale) to anybody who can help!