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-rw-r--r--django/db/backends/oracle/base.py4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/django/db/backends/oracle/base.py b/django/db/backends/oracle/base.py
index be1c497898..185bd749da 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/oracle/base.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/oracle/base.py
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ except ImportError:
# Oracle takes client-side character set encoding from the environment.
os.environ['NLS_LANG'] = '.UTF8'
+# This prevents unicode from getting mangled by getting encoded into the
+# potentially non-unicode database character set.
+os.environ['ORA_NCHAR_LITERAL_REPLACE'] = 'TRUE'
+
try:
import cx_Oracle as Database
except ImportError, e: