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

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 02:07:58PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves 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.
[...]
> 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.

Unfortunately, I don't work with that installation anymore since some years
now, so I cannot answer any of your questions.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus at debian.org>
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