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nls_charset_id [Oracle SQL]

nls_charset_id('charset_name')
nls_charset_id('CHAR_CS')
nls_charset_id('NCHAR_CS')
nls_charset_id returns the numerical id for a character set. The constants CHAR_CS and NCHAR_CS return the id for the database character set and for the national character set.