SQL*Loader does not recognize delimiter "¥"

Question

When trying to load an UTF-8 file with ¥ separator, it doesn't separate the fields when it finds the character. We get an ORA-12899 error from the value exceeding the column size, since it tries to put the entire line into the first column.

In UTF-8 , ¥ is Â¥ ( C2A5), but it seems that it is trying to find C2C2A5.

The database settings are

NLS_LANGUAGE    SPANISH
NLS_TERRITORY   SPAIN
NLS_CURRENCY    ?
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY    SPAIN
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS  ,.
NLS_CHARACTERSET    WE8ISO8859P15
NLS_CALENDAR    GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD/MM/RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE   SPANISH
NLS_SORT    SPANISH
NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT    DD/MM/RR HH24:MI:SSXFF
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT  HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD/MM/RR HH24:MI:SSXFF TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY   ?
NLS_COMP    BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS    BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET  AL16UTF16
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION   11.2.0.3.0

We have tried with:

NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_LANG=SPANISH_SPAIN.WE8MSWIN1252

We are running SQL*Loader from a command window on Windows 7 machine with Spanish locale.

Control file:

LOAD DATA
CHARACTERSET UTF8
INFILE  'C:\tmp\xxxy.txt'
BADFILE 'C:\tmp\xxxy.bad'
TRUNCATE INTO TABLE  SAMPLE.TEST_CAR_VENCIMI_INTERMED
fields terminated by "¥"
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(
CODE             CHAR "upper(ltrim(rtrim(:CODE)))",
CIF              CHAR "upper(ltrim(rtrim(:CIF)))",
CODIGO_PRESTAMO  CHAR "upper(ltrim(rtrim(:CODIGO_PRESTAMO)))"
)

Sample data file:

21AK0100¥P11111111F¥910002¥000000000106013.64¥666666666¥[email protected]¥address¥11111¥Name¥Surname 1¥Surname 2¥[email protected]¥666666666

Answer 1

Since you're using a UTF8 character and a UTF8 file format (I think), for the session that runs SQL*Loader set your NLS_LANG environment variable to "SPANISH_SPAIN.UTF8".