Re: DBI-Link, Oracle, database encoding

[David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>]

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
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