Re: Oracle 9i on Linux - DB character set

Hi,

Thanks for replay. Can you tell me, please, what version of kernel and glibc did you use?

Alex.

"Yang" <yg.yang_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<9hdjec$of7$1_at_wanadoo.fr>...
> I've successfully installed Oracle 9i on Mandrake 8.0. And I've created my
> first instance without any error.
> I've put UTF8 as character set during installation.
> hth.
> Yang
>
>
> Alex <A_Andriyashchenko_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:7f5a1fd2.0106271135.77a55b28_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've installed Oracle 9i on Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4.5, glibc 2.2.3)
> > box. Unfortunatelly when I tried to create new database I got error
> > ORA-12701.
> >
> > Description on this error says:
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > ORA-12701 CREATE DATABASE character set is not known
> > Cause: The character set specified in the CREATE DATABASE command does
> > not exist on the system.
> > Action: Refer to your Oracle operating system-specific documentation
> > for more information about character sets on the system. Use a valid
> > character set in the CREATE DATABASE command.
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > I tried to use several different character sets (US7ASCII,
> > WE8ISO8859P1-15) and ALWAYS got this error. But on Solaris 8 all
> > character sets are working fine.
> >
> > How to get know what character sets support by Linux Mandrake 8.0?
> >
> > Thanks for any assumptions,
> > Alex.
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 04:36:44 CDT