Basic Of NLS

I am new to this topic.I read some of the documents but i am not clear.
My question is
If i insert the data like "Hello how are you"
and if change the related NLS parameters to Germany so does this text will get converted into German Automatically.
More specific
My all data is in English and now i want to convert it to German. So all the text will get converted if i change the character set or language.
Plese clear my concept in this regard.
Nikhil

Oracle will not convert data from English to any other language. If it did, translation companies would be out of business.
What NLS allows you to do, however, is to automatically convert the character set that your data is encoded in on the client and on the server. If I have a Unicode (UTF8 or UTF16) database, for example, I can have a guy dealing with English data inserting ASCII data, a guy dealing with German data inserting ISO-8859-15 data, and a guy dealing with Japanese data inserting Big5 data. NLS will automatically convert all these encodings to UTF-8 (or UTF-16) on the server. Similarly, the ASCII guy can retrieve any of the English data as ASCII, the German guy can retrieve any German data as ISO-8859, and the Japanese guy can retrieve the Japanese data as Big5. This allows people to work in their local character set while the database is in a universal character set.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc
www.ddbcinc.com

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Hello. I have a basic question about NLS. I am just trying to print out the chars.
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static public void main(String[] args) {
String language;
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language = new String("en");
country = new String("US");
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country = new String(args[1]);
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The problem is like due to the fact that your console window is incapable of displaying those accented characters. I suggest you write them to a text file and view it in notepad to convince yourself that java strings can handle that string. E.g.:
class Test {
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        } catch (IOException e) {
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Hi,
I am getting a little desperate here. I have a Solaris 7 box here and want
to have a database
that supports the following features:
*) Support of european special characters (Umlaute, ...)
*) Correct sort order of those characters
I can type Umlaute successfully in the Solaris environment, so vd| work
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NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY $
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NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
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NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM
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NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZH:TZM
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NLS_TERRITORY AUSTRIA
NLS_CURRENCY OS
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AUSTRIA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ,.
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD.MM.RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE GERMAN
NLS_SORT GERMAN
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF
PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF TZH:TZM
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD.MM.RR HH24:MI:SSXFF TZH:TZM
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY ?
NLS_COMP BINARY
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look what happens:
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1 row created.
SQL> select * from NLS;
TEXT
Vster
Dther
Dther
vd|
vd|
vvdd| |
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remote
client and save Umlaute. I really don't understand what I am doing wrong
here, neither
do I understand why it does not work, I have absolutely no clue. I read the
whole NLS
chapters and I must be too stupid to understand.
I have to admit that I am quite new to both Solaris and Oracle, but I do get
the basics
I believe, but this cracks me up.
What do I have to do to support Umlaute and correct sorting?
I remember having a database with the USASCII7 character set and this one
works fine with
Umlaute, but why???? The ASCII7 charset doesn't even know Umlaute! Also the
sorting does
not work well, despite someone else's help just recently.
I would appreciate everybody's helps and hints and tips that could help me
solve this
tedious problem.
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Ingmar.
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Hi Sven and Ingmar,
I will try to kill 2 birds with one stone here. First of all you should check the definition of your current database character set and make sure that it can support all the characters that you need to store in your database.
Please check out
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/iso.asp
WE8ISO8859P9 is for Turkish and WE8ISO8859P1 is for western European (without Euro support).
Next you need to set your client NLS_LANG character set (eg. for your SQL*Plus seesion), so that Oracle can convert your client operating system characters correctly into your database character set. The NLS_LANG character set also determines how SQL*Plus interpret/display your characters upon retrieval from the db.
In both of your cases , I believed that the client NLS_LANG setting was not defined , hence this was defaulting to AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII. This is telling SQL*PLUS that the your client operating system can handle ASCII data only , hence all the accented characters are converted to ASCII during insertion into the database. Likewise upon data retrieval.
If you are running SQL*PLUS client on English Windows then you NLS_LANG character set should be WE8MSWIN1252 and for Turkish Windows it should set to TR8MSWIN1254 .
If the client character set and the database character set are the same , Oracle does not perform any data conversion, that's why if you use a US7ASCII database and set you NLS_LANG character set to US7ASCII .then you can insert all the accented Latin characters , Japanese , Chinese etc. This configuration is not supported, and it can cause many issues.
For more information on character set configuration and possible problems.
Please check out the white paper Database Character set migration on http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle8i/content.html#nls
And the Globalization Support FAQ at:
http://technet.oracle.com/products/oracle8i/
Regards
Nat
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Hi,
Issuing
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v VARCHAR2(20);
BEGIN
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-- kris
No need for that in the title.
Message was edited by:
Kris Rice

Have you tested under SQL*Plus?no probs here
Basic or TNS?both have the same problem
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AddVMOption -Duser.country=USMagic!
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does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
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I receive this error while configure an HTTP Server for Oracle XE Database.
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PlsqlDatabaseUsername APEX_PUBLIC_USER
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