Arabic Character while loading in to Oracle.

Question

Hi All,
OWB config is as follows:
OWB : 9.2
Oracle 9i database.
I am able to load Arabic characters from a source table to a target table
using OWB mappings but when i try to load a flat file the characters get jumbled.
My environment variables :--
IN
Database character set AR8ISO8859P6
Database National character set AL16UTF16
Database NLS_language AMERICAN
Database NLS_territory America
all settings obtained from v$nls_parameters
ON Windows server
in registry
NLS_LANG = AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8MSWIN1256
I have tried changing the NLS_LANG in the registry to AR8ISO8859P6 but still
the same results.
Does OWB support Arabic character, by default at time of installation i must have selected American as language parameter?
If ans to above query is 'Yes' & it i manage to set Language to Arabic what will be impact on other components e.g. OEM, OWM etc.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Vidyanand

Answer 1

Vidyanand,
OWB supports Arabic language to add support for objects translations in the repository (done via OWB Repository Assistant).
OWB also supports data in any language that the database is configured for, as you could see by moving data from table to table with OWB mapping.
I suspect the problem loading flat file is not with OWB. Can you try loading that same file with SQL*Loader? You can read more on the subject in "Handling Different Character Encoding Schemes" section of SQL*Loader reference (in "Oracle 9i Database Utilities").
Nikolai