Hi everyone.

I have written a perl script that tries to insert data into a table in
an Oracle database residing on an aix server. Running the perl script on
the server works fine, but if I try running it on my local machine
cygwin on Windows XP), I get this message:

DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-06550: line 9, column 20:
PLS-00553: character set name is not recognized

The database uses AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MACROMAN8S, but I am completely at
a loss wrt what to do to make perl/DBD::Oracle/the Oracle client library
behave as it should.

The data I try to insert into the database is from an ISO-8859-1 encoded
file.

My question is: what kind of trickery on the client side do I need to
make the script run in the environment described above?

Regards,

Michael.
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On Mar 11, 10:15 am, Michael Zedeler <mich... (AT) zedeler (DOT) dk> wrote:
Ask in comp.databases.oracle.tools or maybe in comp.lang.perl
Ed