[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#323402: request-tracker3.4: Oracle doesn't like NLS_LANG/NLS_NCHAR settings

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:36:03PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> In /usr/share/request-tracker3.4/lib/RT/Handle.pm in subroutine Connect,
> the environment variables NLS_LANG and NLS_NCHAR are set when connecting
> to an Oracle database. These settings do not work in combination with
> our Oracle 9 installation. If I remove the offending lines from
> Handle.pm (ie, those variables are not set anymore) then everything
> works fine. If people do need these environment variables set, I request
> that it is made configurable instead of hardcoded.
> 
> Note: this affects both the version in stable and in unstable.

Hi Guus,

I'm looking at some old bugs in the request-tracker3.* packages
and came across this one.

It appears that noone's looked at this bug before. It's probably much
too late now, but could you let me know whether you are still having
this problem, and if so with which version of RT? I don't have access
to an Oracle installation so I won't be able to reproduce this myself.

If you have any information about when/how it was fixed upstream if it
was, that would be very useful too.

Thanks,
Dominic.

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