On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:05:44AM +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >> I know about Oracle, but have not yet managed to setup DBI-Link. > > > > Try it again :) > > http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/ > > I will try again when the need arises and/or when I find time :^) Great :) > >> NLS_LANG need to be set in the environment of the process using > >> the Oracle client. > > > > Is there some way to set this in the connection string for DBI? > > You, the author of DBI-Link, know more about DBI than I do. Not necessarily. This is a Perl and Oracle issue. DBI-Link just uses DBI's facilities without further elaboration. > My guess: No. > You cannot pass the desired codepage to Oracle client at connect > time. Good to know. > The only possible way to tell Oracle client what codepage you want > is with the environment variable NLS_LANG. Also, you cannot change > the client codepage during a session. Don't ask me why they designed > it that way. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time ;) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote!
