Hi,

place appropriate NLS_LANG definitions in the Apache startup script
(/etc/rc.d/apache ?).

-Stathis.

Miguel Carvalho wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First of all i have searched for this trouble on the news(
> groups.google.com); on Oracle docson  phpbuilder site; in php general, php
> db mailing list's .
> 
> The problem:
> 
> Background info:
> PHP version: 4.1.2
> OS: Linux Suse 7
> OCI version: 8
> Database version: 7.x
> Database OS: HP/UX
> 
> I need to do a select for a field that is varchar2.
> The field contains strings that have some char's like ( &agr; in html á,
> &ggr; in html ã).
> 
> The problem is that instead of these nice char's a get a ?.
> 
> This seams to me a PHP/OCI probleam, because if a use SQL Plus 8 ( on a
> Windows machine )or other cliente, i get every thing ok.
> 
> What a have tried til now:
> 
> Changing the NLS_LANG env var( with PutEnv in Apache )...no luck.
> 
> The result for: select * from NLS_SESSION_PARAMETRS is the same on the
> Windows client and on PHP( i thought that OCI layer was using some defaults
> of it's own ).
> 
> The database was created with the right NLS_PARAMETER's ( if it were not, i
> couldnt get these char's in SQLPLUS ).
> 
> One more thing....i very new to Oracle....but i have worked with other DBMS
> like MSSQL Server, MySQL, Postgres.
> 
> Does any one has seen this before?
> Is this a known probleam?
> Does any one have any tip to solve this probleam?
> 
> Thank's
> Miguel Carvalho
> 
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