Re: Display of mutated vowels?
From: sybrandb <sybrandb_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:38:05 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:38:05 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <32656643-3647-4c9d-842a-cf2dc85aca20@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 4, 4:49 pm, Caja <carsten.jac..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the result of the statement
> SELECT UPPER('bügel') FROM dual;
> differs when I type it in an cmd-window with sqlplus and in an
> SQLPLUSW window
>
> cmd with sqlplus: BÜGEL
> SQLPLUSW.EXE: BüGEL
>
> I would be great if somebody could explain this to me or has a helpful
> link. Thanks a lot!
>
> Kind regards
> Carsten
Simply different charactersets. The characterset for a cmd window is
different from the characterset of the GUI. The cmd characterset is
codepage 437 or 850.
Type chcp to find out.
-- Sybrand Bakker Senior Oracle DBAReceived on Tue Mar 04 2008 - 10:38:05 CST