NLS_LANG cannot be changed by ALTER SESSION, NLS_LANGUAGE and NLS_TERRITORY can. However NLS_LANGUAGE and /or NLS_TERRITORY cannot be set as "standalone" parameters in the environment or registry on the client.
Evidently the "right" solution is, before logging into Oracle at all, setting the following environment variable:
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8
Jewitt comments on the use of image and writing in a CD-ROM version of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". She also discusses the inherent tension in schools as they promote new technology but test students through traditional technology.
D. Bamman, S. Popat, and S. Shen. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), page 2138--2144. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Association for Computational Linguistics, (June 2019)