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NLS_CHARSET_NAME
returns the name corresponding to a specified character set number.
Return Value
VARCHAR2
Syntax
NLS_CHARSET_NAME (charset_id)
Arguments
charset_id
is a valid character set number or one of these keywords:
CHAR_CS
represents the database character set.
NCHAR_CS
represents the national character set. The national character set for the database can be either UTF-8 or AL16UTF16 (default). However, the national character set for analytic workspaces is always UTF-8.
If the number does not correspond to a character set, then the function returns NULL.
Example
NLS_CHARSET_NAME(2000)
returns the value AL16UTF16
.