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
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