RE: US7ASCII, UTF8, characters sets, conversions.....agghhhhHH!!!

Hello Chris

We made a point to have all the components (servers and clients and db's) in the same character sets.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
adary_at_mehish.co.il

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> Subject: Re: US7ASCII, UTF8, characters sets,
> conversions.....agghhhhHH!!!!!
>
> When I connected I got:
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> "OWS-05101: Execution failed due to Oracle error -6550"
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> Oops! Maybe they have the wrong character set.
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> "Grabowy,
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> Chris" To: Multiple recipients of
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> Sent by: root Subject: US7ASCII, UTF8,
> characters sets,
> conversions.....agghhhhHH!!!!!
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> 01/08/2002
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> 04:05 PM
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> Please
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> respond to
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> ORACLE-L
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> So we stumbled upon the white paper...
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> WHY WE ARE MOVING OUR DATABASES TO THE UTF8 CHARACTER SET
> By David F. Pennington, GlaxoSmithKline
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> This white paper raises a potential issue that DBAs might need to be aware
> of. Basically, it has to do with certain characters not storing correctly
> in the database because of different character sets being used between the
> database, client and how the user enters data into the application.
>
> Has this issue been raised on the list before?
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> Basically, were wondering how other DBAs/sites are handling/approaching
> this
> issue.
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> Many TIA!!
>
> Chris
>
> I believe the below link will get you to the white paper on the IOUG
> website.
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> http://www.ioug.org/ioug_s/REPOSITORY_PKG.REPOSITORY_BUILD_VIEW_FORM?v_tec
> h_
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> content_phy_Id=5310&v_trx=784353
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