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- From: rz34@hp850.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Schillinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: National Language Support troubles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.141837.14649@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:18:37 GMT
- Sender: usenet@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: rz34@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Lines: 52
-
- I'm *still* working on getting that National Language Support running
- properly.
-
- We're running ORACLE v.6.0.34.2.1 and on a HP/UX 9000 Series 800.
-
- The problem is getting the Umlauts and other special characters to
- appear correctly on all four of our terminal types: xterm, hpterm,
- vt100, and vt220. WE8HP works on hpterm and WE8DEC works on the other
- three.
-
- I set LANGUAGE=German_Germany.WE8DEC in init.ora, but I'd like the
- characters to appear correctly on hpterm too!
- Then I put the following if/then into my .profile to check on the terminal type
- and access the correct message files for ORACLE **utilities**:
-
- if [ $TERM = hpterm ]
- then export LANGUAGE=German_Germany.WE8HP
- else export LANGUAGE=German_Germany.WE8DEC
- fi
-
- The if/then works fine. Which means vt220 and vt100 work fine. (I'm
- not sure about xterm because of the second problem. See below.) But
- on hpterm in sqlplus, the Umlauts don't appear, the result of init.ora
- LANGUAGE being set to WE8DEC, which it doesn't like. However, since I
- reset the LANGUAGE in my .profile for utilities the Umlauts appear
- correctly in hpterm Forms, etc.
-
- So, the question is: Is it possible to put a similar if/then in my
- init.ora to check on the terminal type and set the ORACLE instance
- LANGUAGE depending on what the terminal type is??
-
- Now, to the second problem: When I try to run the msqlforms30 on
- xterm or hpterm, I get only the following messages:
-
- (it only comes in German now so I'll try to translate it as best I can)
-
- Can't access help resource file.
- Can't initialize the IAD application.
-
- I assume the second error is due to the first and the first looks
- ** to me ** as if it occurs because a file is missing. But I checked
- in the manual and seem to have all the right filesr (iad,iap,iac,iag,
- typ,ifp in forms30/mesg/). The same error message comes when I try to
- run msqlmenu50, but I don't know what message files are supposed to be
- there for Menu.
-
- Has anyone had any experience with these two problems in NLS?
-
- I'd appreciate any help. Thanks in advance!
-
- Karen
- rz34@hp850.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
-