ORA-12705: NLS problem

From: Steven Cools <Steven_at_digimap.be>
Date: 30 Apr 1998 14:22:50 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd7442$d057a3f0$74faa8c0@steven>

hi,

a strange problem:

SQL*Plus3.3 (Oracle 7.3.2.2) generates error "ORA-12705 : invalid or unknown NLS parameter value
specified" when trying to connect to the server. This happened on a fresh installation of the Oracle
client CD on a Win95 PC with OSR2. Other PC's where the Oracle client CD has been installed don't have his problem. I checked the Oracle manual (the pdf file) and it mentioned 2 solutions:

when the ALTER session command was used: this is not the case
specify correct values in the NLS_LANG environment variable: well, I suppose this is the NLS_LANG entry in the WIN95 entry and it says: FRENCH_FRANCE.WE8ISO8859P1. The value on the other PC's are : AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 (BTW : they connect to the same db-server) so I tried to change the value to this one but that didn't help (same error message).

What's wrong with that one configuration ? Please help, thanks !!

If possible, e-mail me directly. Received on Thu Apr 30 1998 - 09:22:50 CDT