Hi List, How do we send data in multilingual format via mails in Oracle? A scheduled backend job has to generate mail with data fetched from db tables containing multilingual text. A procedure is called that pulls data from tables, does some calculations and then generates a message body text. This text contains multilingual characters. Have tried using utl_tcp, utl_smtp but couldnt get it done. I got OUTLOOK as mail client. Now when i recieve mails sent via db procedure implementing utl_tcp, i see junk characters. What could be the problem here? How do i identify whether its a problem in sending mail through backend or there is some setting in OUTLOOK that i've to do. Database Settings: Ver = 9.2.0.1.0 NLS_CHARACTERSET = AL32UTF8 NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET = AL16UTF16 Outlook settings: OUTLOOK -> Tools -> Options -> Mail Format -> International Options -> Use this encoding for unmarked received messages: Unicode (UTF-8) Any pointers..?? Thnx Suneet ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------