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Re: nls what? MS Word chars in Oracle

From: Azamat Khalilov <aza_at_nospam.ru>
Date: 2000/06/23
Message-ID: <20j6ls0tp5r8mdkn0liulb1mtnsimq8mbn@4ax.com>#1/1

The solution is to check ur database charset and client's charset. Database charset set when u install oracle. Client's charset accessible thru regedit: HKLM\Software\ORACLE\NLS LANG

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:08:27 GMT, vsopvs_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>Hi, everybody;
>
>i am transferring the contents of MS SQL Server DB into Oracle 8i -
>using DBI script i created. Everything is fine - except all special
>chars - like those you can insert in MS Word - are converted into
>regular ASCII more or less :-) equivalent :-)
>
>Does anybody know nls what i should set - client? server? ALTER
>SESSION? ALTER DATABASE? both? I am confused - after reading tons of
>documents - and trying different combinations.
>
>Thanks a lot
>vs

Received on Fri Jun 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT

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