If you have a multibytes character set, the OCI API
from Oracle will for some calls count characters and
for others bytes. This will confuse DBD::Oracle especially
on CLOBs, but also on strings with limited length in
some cases.
BR, Stefan
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Sharon O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 19:55
> An: Ken Shan
> Cc: Rami Friedman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: unicode/locale question
>
>
> Yes you should have NLS_LANG=american_america.UTF8
> where the language and territory are whatever the database was
> originally set
> up in as this is the language that messages from the database
> will be returned
> in.
>
> Ken Shan wrote:
>
> > On 2000-12-14T11:55:57-0800, Rami Friedman wrote:
> > > Could I instead rely on the database driver to convert from the
> > > foreign charset to unicode?
> >
> > I don't see why not. Have you looked at the Oracle documentation for
> > its NLS support? The Oracle driver should be happy to perform the
> > encoding conversions you require based on your setting of environment
> > variables and so on.
> >
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