Re: German Characterset

"Keith Jamieson" <jamiesonk_at_phoenix.ie> writes:

> We have set up one of our Oracle databases to be in German, and have changed
> our keyboard to be a german keyboard.
> However, we do not appear able to insert german characters , eg
> like u with an umlaut.
> In addition, when we use the to_date /to_char functions, the database is
> still expecting the months to appear in english.
> Can anyone help me on this please.

What is the database's characterset ?
It should be an 8 bits characterset (typically WE8ISO8859P1)

How is your client environment set up ? NLS_LANG should be set to german_germany.we8iso8859p1

Once this is done, it should work fine.

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