Re: CHARACTER SET CONVERSION

If the character set you are going to is a superset of the old characterset then you won't have to do anything. If it is not, you will have to export and import the database to have the new characterset be good for all ot the data.

HTH,
Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:06 AM

> Hi,
>
> I am putting this question again but we need little more input...
>
> We are currently using database character set WE8ISO8859P1.
> As we are storing unicode data using NVARCHAR2 ..and we are having some
> problem with ODBC hadling NVARCHAR2...
> So we decided to move to character set UTF8 so that we can store unicode
> data in varchar2 datatype....
> what are stps we need to follow so that existing data is also UTF8
> COMPLIANT........
>
> 1) Can we use alter database command to change the character set or we
need
> to use EXPORT/IMPORT Utility.
> 2) Do i need to change all the existing varchar2 preicsion to 3 times
their
> present value example varchar2(10) to varchar2(30) OR only those columns
> which wil store unicode data......
> 3) will it be possible to import data into column defined as varchar2 with
> UTF8 Character set which was NVARCHAR2 in export with WE8ISO8859P1
character
> set..
> 4) Do we need to change the NLS_LANG on each client machine to use UTF8 or
> only the database character set.......
>
> Thanks
> -Harvinder
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