From: Terry Crowl <tcrowl@...>
Date: 2011-08-31T06:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: oracle oci8 utf8 corruption

krzysztof cierpisz wrote in post #821043:
> On May 28, 1:11 pm, ciapecki <ciape...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> conn.logoff
>>
>> chris@emeadb:~/work/ruby/oci$ ruby read_write_utf8.rb
>>
>> where should I try to dig into to find out how to force the oracle
>> database data to be properly stored in the file on linux?
>> I just add that
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> thanks,
>> chris
>
> apparently setting NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 (externally! - not
> in the ruby script) did the trick.
>
> chris

I placed ENV['NLS_LANG']='AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8' as the first line in my 
ruby script and it worked.

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