Re: NLS QUESTION - WE8ISO8859P1 - Russian Cyrillic ???

Hi Kristy,

I am developing an application for a Japanese customer. We are using Windows (95 and NT) clients, a HP-UX server and Oracle 7.3.4. To be able to work with the Japanese characters we are using the following character sets, for the client 'JA16SJIS' and for the server 'JA16EUC'. Using these character sets we are able to store English and Japanese characters. Special German characters cannot be used. If you are running Oracle8 you are able to use the UNICODE character set that supports all characters.

The problem with different character sets is the conversion from the client to the server - you must have fitting sets to avoid loss of data.

Good Luck
Frank Puechl
Technology Consultant
debis Systemhaus Dienstleistungen GmbH
Insurance International

Kristy <nospamplease_at_home.com> wrote in message news:3749c561.17195676_at_client.ce.news.psi.net...
> Hi Gang:
>
> We have been using the WE8ISO8859P1 character set in our Oracle
> database with great success with our French, German, U.K., etc. users
> until now...
>
> Our test user in Russia enters and sees Cyrillic characters on the
> screen (Windows) but after she saves and retrieves the record, the
> Cyrillic characters are gone. Is it possible to have different
> clients with different character sets all using the same database???
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kristy
> Oracle DBA
Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 02:19:39 CDT