Re: Character behaviour Unix vs Windows ß

2006-04-05 Thread Tim Diggins
Hmm, I'm not sure about this in encoding-land, but as a linguist - I know that there are (graphically distinct) characters esstset (ß) - used in German for "ss" and beta (β) used in Modern Greek for the sound "v". They look quite similar to each other. It is fairly legitimate in German ortho

Character behaviour Unix vs Windows ß

2006-04-05 Thread birendar . waldiya
Hi Any having idea about why my latin characterß getting converted to 'SS' all the time however my other character are going smoothly indatabase except above i am trying to insert into data base , I am usign oracle 9i and ISO-8859-1 encoding and this is happening in the unix environme