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Operating system character set identified as UTF-8.
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Then, the report file provide detailed character set information. Let's look at this with an example replicat report file. You can find the following outputs:
2014-12-08 16:05:00 INFO OGG-03059 Operating system character set identified as UTF-8.
---> This is the OS character set.
…
2014-12-08 16:05:00 INFO OGG-03036 Database character set identified as UTF-8. Locale: en_US.
---> This is the target database server character set.
…
2014-12-08 16:05:00 INFO OGG-03037 Session character set identified as UTF-8.
---> This is the target database session character set.
…
2014-12-08 16:05:00 INFO OGG-03528 The source database character set, as determined from the table definition file, is UTF-8.
---> This shows the source database character set defined in the defgen file.
…
2014-12-08 16:05:00 INFO OGG-03506 The source database character set, as determined from the trail file, is UTF-8.
---> This shows the source database character set defined in the trail file.
In this case, because source and target are all in UTF-8 encoding. There should not be any character set conversion in Oracle GoldenGate.
- Operating System Character Set
- Terminal Character Set
- DB Character Set, DB N-Charset
- DB Client/Session Character Set