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1417029 - BFC : After an Oracle CharacterSet migration, the Euro symbol turns up as Upside-Down Questionmark

Symptom

  • The Euro symbol is representing by a ‘¿’. Instead of the ‘€’ , the symbol ‘¿’ appears.

 


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Environment

  • Oracle database 9.X
  • The characterSet of the Oracle Instance is WE8ISO8859P15
  • Euro symbol is used into some user tables.
  • We want upgrade the Oracle version (to 10GR2) and in the same time, upgrade the Oracle CharacterSet (to WE8MSWIN1252) => We perform these upgrades by using export/import.
  • oracle client is using CharacterSet WE8MSWIN1252 and Oracle Server is using WE8ISO8859P15
  • Oracle client is using CharacterSet WE8ISO8859P15 and Oracle Server is using WE8MSWIN1252
  • Oracle client is using CharacterSet WE8MSWIN1252 and Oracle Server is using WE8MSWIN1252

Product

SAP Financial Consolidation 10.0, service pack 2 - 10.0.2 ; SAP Financial Consolidation 10.5 ; SAP Financial Consolidation 7.0 ; SAP Financial Consolidation 7.5

Keywords

CharacterSet, migration, Euro Symbol, Upside-Down, Questionmark , KBA , How To

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