Ananda Kumar schrieb: > strange. did u exit and reconnect and did the select? > Yes, I tried it once more. I have to put the USE command before I change session settings to "latin" to make it work without error (otherwise I still get the duplicate message). But even after exiting I get the national characters displayed as two (or more) bytes.
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