Message-Id: <10499.105786@fatcity.com> From: David Turner Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:53:39 -0700 Subject: Character sets --------------829392F1FC7FBA841317F83A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Dave Turner, Senior Database Administrator, Linuxcare, Inc. 913.383.3052 tel, 913.579.3803 cel, 877.443.9553 pager dturner@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. -- --------------829392F1FC7FBA841317F83A Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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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Dave Turner, Senior Database Administrator, Linuxcare, Inc.
913.383.3052 tel, 913.579.3803 cel, 877.443.9553 pager 
dturner@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
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