How to check the code points managed by a UNIX Operating System?
$ echo “” | od -xc You can also check the character corresponding to a code point using the “echo” command like this: for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, TRU64: $echo ‘\0351’ for Linux: $echo -e ‘\0351’ You can use Locale Builder or a printed code page (see links below) to verify that your native code page and NLS_LANG setting properly correspond. If there is any ambiguity then use the command above to get the values for more than one character.