Hello Janine, > If I'm missing, overlooking or otherwise misunderstanding something, > please let me know. At this point the alternatives are looking a bit > bleak.....
Don't worry, you are not the first who encountered this problem. Go to http://rhea.redhat.com/bboard-archive/webdb/0006jS.html and search for "A Horror Story About Oracle and Charsets". Despite the title, recovering your data is actually pretty easy - Branimir and me did it more than once while working on Siemens ShareNet. It boils down to changing two bytes in the dump file to convince Oracle that the data is already encoded as ISO-8859-1. This is even described on Metalink, in Note:48644.1. Carsten -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
