RE: 5.8, NLS_LANG, and the utf8 flag

2002-10-14 Thread Vorce, Tim (T.)
:[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

Re: 5.8, NLS_LANG, and the utf8 flag

2002-10-14 Thread Kevin Scaldeferri
Tim Vorce wrote: 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; In Perl 5.8, 'use utf8' is 99% no-op. It is documented as only being necessary to

Re: 5.8, NLS_LANG, and the utf8 flag

2002-10-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:42:10AM -0700, Kevin Scaldeferri wrote: Tim Vorce wrote: 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; In Perl 5.8, 'use

5.8, NLS_LANG, and the utf8 flag

2002-10-12 Thread Kevin Scaldeferri
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