[Zope-DB] DCOracle2, Oracle, and NLS

Yves Bastide Yves.Bastide@irisa.fr
Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:32:33 +0100


Johnny Wezel wrote:
> I'm a blockhead, I misspelled NLS_LANG.
> 
> BUT now, the national characters only display right in a form. In normal HTML,
> they are replaced by a '?'. BUT if I test the query providing the data in Zope,
> the characters are displayed ok. What am I missing? I tried html_quote in
> dtml-var tags, but it didn't help.

What encoding does your page declare itself in?
(eg, <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
charset=iso-8859-1">) in plain old html, or <?xml version="1.0" 
encoding="ISO8859-1"?> in xhtml)

The best solution being to throw away "national encodings" and use Unicode..

> 
> Cheers
> Johnny
> 

yves