It is my impression that the utf flag isn't set unless you explicitly set it. That seems to impact program stuff rather than data, and that may best be set by the statement use utf8;
Tim Vorce Ford Motor Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Scaldeferri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 6:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 5.8, NLS_LANG, and the utf8 flag I didn't see anything which explicitly confirmed this in a couple google searches on this group, so... I observe that when I set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 that while I retrieve the correct bytes from the database, the utf8 flag is not set. Is this correct or am I possibly not setting up my connection correctly. I'm using Oracle, if it matters at all, and versions of everything from about 2 months ago, so maybe there are newer versions that fix this? Thanks, Kevin (P.S. I posted this once through google, but they don't think this groups is moderated, and apparently that kept it from going out the first time. I think. Apologies to anyone who sees this twice)
