On 23 Aug 2007 10:21:56 GMT, Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
wrote:
>2) If you (as misguided admins too often do) mistakenly set NLS_LANG
> to the database character set, no character conversion AND NO
> INTEGRITY CHECKS are performed and you can store all sort of garbage
> in your database without even noticing. It will cause problems later on,
> though. This is an Oracle bug in my opinion, although Oracle will
> probably disagree with me on this.
It's not a bug. Setting the database characterset to the character set
of the client is, especially when the server O/S doesn't support it.
Setting the client characterset to the characterset of the database,
especially when the O/S doesn't support the database characterset is a
bug too.
Eventually it is a Mickeysoft bug as Mickeysoft is not supporting the
correct ISO characterset.
It is NOT an Oracle bug!
--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Thu Aug 23 2007 - 13:53:05 CDT
