Message-Id: <10515.107366@fatcity.com> From: guy ruth hammond Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:09:51 +0100 Subject: Re: Oracle 8i - the space wasting pig Andreas Jung wrote: > This is what I mean "space wasting". There is no need store *every* character of > a string to be stored in 2 bytes. This is a really problem. Why should > I need 20GB of disks to store just 10 GB of data that contains > very few 2 byte characters like german umlauts.... Andreas, If this is a problem, you'll have to take it up with the International Standards Organization, not with Oracle. I'm sure Oracle's engineers have the skill to create a 9-bit character set, but they have no control over what UTF8 is. :0) If you are really worried, use HTML-style entity encoding and 8-bit characters. Here is an example of what I mean (it can be cut out and pasted into an HTML file and viewed in a web browser). Soufflé I couldn't think of a word with an umlaut in it offhand. g -- guy ruth hammond | One is punished for being Technology Analysis & Consulting | weak, not for being cruel. 07879607148 http://www.agency.com | -- Baudelaire