Convertion of Unicode to ASCII NIGHTMARE

[ChaosKCW]

>
> There's an Oracle environment variable that appears to make a
> difference: NLS_CHARSET, perhaps - it's been a while since I've had to
> deal with Oracle, and I'm not looking for another adventure into
> Oracle's hideous documentation to find out.
>

That is an EVIL setting which should not be used. The NLS_CHARSET
environment variable causes so many headaches its not worth playing
with it at all.