ora-12705

We are in the process of moving from the .NET Microsoft oracle driver to the ODP.NET driver. One of the problems we have had is this error: ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified We were able to stop the error by modifying the registry and changing the setting ( see this question ) In our case we changed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - ORACLE - NLS_LANG which was set to NA to be the same as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - ORACLE - HOME0 - NLS_LANG which was set correctly My question is why would there be different NLS_LANG settings in the registry, and might

I am using the thin Oracle JDBC driver ver 10.2.0 (ojdbc14.jar). I would like to configure its NLS_LANG setting manually. Is there a way? Currently it fetches this setting from the VM variable user.language (which is set automatically by setting the current locale, or on startup from the system environment). This is a problem when the users switch the application locale to a one that is unsupported by the Oracle JDBC driver (e.g. mk_MK). In this case, the next time I fetch a connection I get the following exception: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-12705: Cannot access