How to determine the NLS of the current session

It does not appear (from reading or no replies to my previous post) that one can determine within SPL code what NLS setting a database session is currently set to. I need to raise my own exceptions where the message text must reflect the NLS of the user's session. That is, my code dynamically assigns to the variable error_text the appropriate string for an error based on detecting that the user requires a german message: raise exception 12345, 0, error_text; If I am correct, short of recording a user profile with a locale attribute how else do people internationalise their SPL errors? -- Nigel Campbell Voice: (613) 738-1338 ext 3016 P.O. Box 9707,Stn.T Business Intelligence FAX: (613) 738-0002 3755 Riverside Dr. Cognos Incorporated Internet: nigelc@cognos.com Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 URL: http://www.cognos.com CANADA