Character sets

From: David Turner <dturner_at_linuxcare.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:53:39 -0700
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I really don't have a good grasp of character sets and am reading through the Oracle manual and still don't know which character set would be good for our international databases. One of our DBAs had suggested a character set of utf8, but I don't know why this would be better than one over another. Anyone know the most widely used character set aside from the default?

One other thing. It looks like utf8 doesn't support clobs which I need. I need a character set that supports basically all the datatypes.

Thanks, Dave Turner

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I really don't have a good grasp of character sets and am reading through
the Oracle manual and still don't know which character set would be good
for our international databases. One of our DBAs had suggested a character
set of utf8, but I don't know why this would be better than one over another.
Anyone know the most widely used character set aside from the default?


<p>One other thing. It looks like utf8 doesn't support clobs which I need.

I need a character set that supports basically all the datatypes.


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Thanks, Dave Turner


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