Problem: Unicode data is not showing from SQL*Plus properly. In the following example € sign showing as ?
[username@servername ~]$ sqlplus username@test_db SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Tue Nov 15 15:29:50 2016 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options Session altered.
SQL> select content from transaction_data where TRANSACTIONID=30902132187;
CONTENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cout : 8,00?.
Solution Change Putty Setting: If you are using Putty, your Putty session needs it's Translation setting to be changed to UTF-8 before it can be displayed correctly.  Set the NLS_LANG parameter correctly: [username@servername ~]$ export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 [username@servername ~]$ sqlplus username@test_db
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Tue Nov 15 15:30:43 2016
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options Session altered. SQL> select content from transaction_data where TRANSACTIONID=30902132187;
CONTENT --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cout : 8,00€. |