Is there any character set translation facility between the database and th

Question

We are upgrading a character based SQLforms version 3 application to forms6i running over the web against a 9.02 database.
Is there any character set translation facility between the database and the Forms server / web browser?
Our database character set is NEE..P4 (North European). However, the user needs to see the data in the BLT..P13 (Baltic) character set.
In the old application, users accessed these forms through a telnet client and this did the translation. For example :
The database character :
� (Unicode hex value = 00D0)
would be translated by and displayed on the telnet client as :
� (Unicode hex value = 0160)
A colleague of mine has done some experimenting. By changing the NLS_LANG registry setting to BLT..P13 in his oracle home and loading the Baltic character set for his Windows 2000 environment, he has been able to achieve the same translation in SQLPLUS.
However, we have been unable to do the same in a forms web runtime.

Answer 1

Oracle automatically translates characters between the display CharacterSet and the database characterset
The statement
In the old application, users accessed these forms through a telnet client and this did the translation
worries me a little because it implies that the data you have stored in the database might not actually encode the characters that you think you've put in.
This aside you need to set you NLS_LANG parameter on the application server for the client side character set - if you are using the forms listener servlet architecture then this would be set in the default.env file.