Inserting Euro character

Hi,
We are using Oracle 8.1.7 version of oracle. We created a
database with character set WE8ISO8859P15. We want to insert the
Eiro character into a table in that database. How can we achieve
this? Please help us.

Hi there!
WE8ISO8859P1 is a character set that is not Euro enabled.
(see Appendix A of the Oracle 8i National Language Support
Guide for Euro-enabled character sets).
I see a couple of possible approaches to solving your
problem:
1.) recreate the database with a unicode characterset.
2.) If 1 is not an option, try defining the column that
needs the Euro symbol inserted as NCHAR or NVARCHAR2
and define a (euro-enabled) national character set
via an environment variable.
For further details pleas check the "Oracle 8i National Language
Support Guide".
Hope that helps.
All the best
Michael A. Istinger

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