On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:05:04PM -0800, David Turner wrote:
> 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.
>
UTF8 usually should fit your need. We store XML document (UTF8)
in CLOBS. Fulltext indexing with Intermedia works perfectly.
That's your choice,
Received on Wed May 17 2000 - 13:34:18 CDT
