Re: Problem with XMLType attribibutes? please confirm

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:05:28 +0200
Message-ID: <dcr7lq$8jh$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

Maxim Demenko wrote:
> Frank van Bortel schrieb:
>

>> Eeerrr... me too... I get two rows, running on 10g Release 10.1.0.2.0
>>

>
> Welcome in club ;-)
> What i'm confused about:
> My database has WE8MSWIN1252 characterset. When i select in linux
> terminal 'ü' from dual, i get always 'ü' showed ( as i expect ) by
> setting one of WE8MSWIN1252, WE8ISO8859P1 or WE8ISO8859P15 part of
> NLS_LANG. If i do it in dos box however, all it shows me crap ( only
> WE8MSWIN1252 gives correct results ). I can't understand, why the
> conversion on windows don't succeed... ( or not in the way i understand
> it ;-)
>
> Best regards
>
> Maxim

Because there's a lot of conversions and mapping going on: DB->Net->Client->OS (or would that be DB->Net->OS->Client).

The "standard" active code page on Windows is 437. Not 1252. Your Linux is probably UTF (as Windows shold be). chcp can change the code pages on Windows - this has been discussed before.

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Wed Aug 03 2005 - 15:05:28 CDT