Thanks for the useful inputs!!

I was also thinking that the JA16SJISTTILDE was not available in Release 1. Actually I need this character set for NLS_LANG to import the data into the new database I am able to create in JA16SJIS.

Since this is confirmed now I'll have to get on on to download the Rease 2, or is there any other way by which I can apply JA16SJISTTILDE as a patch.

Thanks a ton

S K Mittal