Re: special characters

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:59:29 -0700
Message-Id: <1085756369.15795.24.camel@poirot>

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 07:06, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On 05/28/2004 08:47:28 AM, "Steiner, Randy" wrote:
> > Since the upside down character is what is really in the database, how can I
> > show it when I do a query.
>
> You need the font which will show "flip the bird" sign when it doesn't
> recognize a character. That is what "reverse question mark" means.

Mladen's way of verbalizing "I don't know".

This is likely related to your NLS settings. There's a lot of info on this in the documentation.

I have not offered a solution, as I don't have one either, though it may just be your NLS_LANG setting.

Jared

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