[Zope] DCOracle and chars over 128

Shai Berger shai@platonix.com
Sat, 24 Feb 2001 02:44:59 +0200


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> 
> Shai Berger writes:
>  > In some circumstances (we suspect the LANG setting
>  > at the time of build) it chops 128 (the most significant bit) off
>  > characters inserted into the database as strings.
> We have had similar problems.
> 
> However, it had nothing to do with DCOracle but with the
> Oracle client library configuration. You can tell it
> about the character set the client should use.
> 
> Dieter

Thanks -- this does make sense. I blamed DCOracle because
I was able to push high characters into the database from
SQL*Plus, and I forgot there is another layer between Zope
and the Oracle database.