diff --git a/scripts/file-to-apex b/scripts/file-to-apex
index 4b0bb09..00f94b5 100755
--- a/scripts/file-to-apex
+++ b/scripts/file-to-apex
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 script_folder=$(dirname "${0}")
 "${script_folder}"/check_conf_file.sh || exit 1
 source config/asc.conf || exit 1
+NLS_LANG=.AL32UTF8
+export NLS_LANG
+
 if [ -z "${app_alias}" ]; then
    #call install_apex with an empty app_alias string (will ask for user input otherwise)
    sqlplus "${username}"/"${password}"@"${database_connection}" @"${script_folder}"/install_apex.sql "${apexappid}" "${workspace_name}" "${parsing_schema}" '' || exit 1