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Asked: 2026-05-20T05:38:38+00:00

I have Oracle 11 database to which I connect using both JDBC and ODBC.

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I have Oracle 11 database to which I connect using both JDBC and ODBC. JDBC works well, but in ODBC all Polish letters in SELECT result are changed to Latin equivalent, for example ą -> a, Ó -> O etc. I tested it with my application and simple Python program that uses odbc module. The same value from database is returned as:

ZAMOŚĆ - by JDBC
ZAMOSC - by ODBC

My environment:

DB server: Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2.0.1.0 – 64bit Production

Client machine:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit
  • Oracle clients in 32 bit and 64 bit versions in: c:\Oracle\Ora1120_32bit and c:\Oracle\Ora1120_64bit
  • ODBC manager reports Oracle driver version as: 11.02.00.01

I think that all locales are set to Poland/Polish, but they are not visible
by SET command line utility.

Anybody knows what ODBC or environment setting is responsible for translation of Polish letters into Latin equivalents?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I suspect the value of the client character set is not the same in both cases. Can you check the value of your NLS_LANG setting:

    • since you are on Windows, it should be set in the registry (probably HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> ORACLE -> YOUR_HOME -> NLS_LANG)
    • you’ve found that this doesn’t solve your problem, however adding an environment variable NLS_LANG did work !
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