Re: Oracle8 and varchar
| From: | thies at digicol dot de | Date: | Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:26:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle8 and varchar | ||
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:23:35PM +0200, Olivier Lepretre wrote:
> Hi Rouvas :
>
> This is the code. the column b.proc_desc is the varchar2(20) causing problem (and all varchar2
> fields are causing me the same problem). if the value is for example GUIDE, the function strlen
> returns a size of 10 .... but the real size is 5 .... After investigation, it appears that the
> string is composed of G\0U\0I\0D\0E\0 .... strange isn't it ?
>
> The server is ORA/NT 8.0.5, client is on RH6.1 ORA8.0.x
please set ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and NLS_LANG *before* you
start your apache. (not in httpd.cong and not usign putenv in
your script.) that's most likely to solve your trouble.
tc
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