Re: cx_Oracle and unicode data

2007-03-15 Thread GHUM
loo ping, > But it's not what I call a 'clean' solution and I suppose that it must > exist another way to force the client DB to use UTF8, or another > solution to get my data. I share your feeling. I asked a similiar question ~1 year ago; and: your solution is the only one. The oracle-libs get

cx_Oracle and unicode data

2007-03-15 Thread looping
Hi, I need to get data from an Oracle DB that contains unicode data (chinese text). But the chinese data that I receive is wrong (only ¿). After a look at the Oracle documentation I've found an environment variable called NLS_LANG that you could set to define what charset the DB client use and it