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Chris Saxon

Thanks for the question, mangesh.

Asked: March 10, 2017 - 11:59 am UTC

Last updated: March 14, 2017 - 2:22 pm UTC

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Hi,

I have procedure with umlaut characters in it. Below is the sample.

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE procPrintHelloWorld
IS
BEGIN

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('ß ä Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö Hello World!');

END;
/

When procedure is created through sql developer, it creates procedure as is without converting those umlaut.
However, when same procedure is executed through sql plus, those characters are changed to some junks and procedure is created with some junks. DBMS_OUTPUT doesn't show same output as shown.

What can be done? Is it Sql plus or Unix/Linux related issue?

Thanks,
MAngesh

and Chris said...

It's down to your NLS_LANG settings and your database character set. If these are different you could have character set conversions.

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It worked

Mangesh Deshpande, March 14, 2017 - 1:58 pm UTC

Thanks Chris, it worked. NLS_LANG wasn't set in Sqlplus client. Set it using export NLS_LANG and procedure with German characters is created.
Chris Saxon
March 14, 2017 - 2:22 pm UTC

Great, thanks for letting us know!
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