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Translate NLS_CHARACTERSET to the descriptive name

edited Jun 17, 2009 7:25PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered
SELECT * FROM NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS will show NLS_CHARACTERSET and NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET with values such as "USASCII7" and "WE8ISO8859P1". The functions NLS_CHARSET_ID and NLS_CHARSET_NAME can be used to convert to and from these values and the ID (needed for things like XMLTYPE.getclobval method).

My problen is how to convert either of these to the description like "ISO-8859-1", as returned by utl_http.get_body_charset.

I cannot find any function or lookup table that provides this info. Anyone know?

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