question on multibyte character storage

From: elain he <elainhe_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:29:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D314A.20031014112926@fatcity.com>

Hi,
We are planning on storing 2-byte characterset in our UTF8 database. If I store a single two-byte character in a varchar2 column, do I need to declare the column as VARCHAR2(1) or VARCHAR2(2)? As far as I know since it's a UTF8 database, a VARCHAR2(1) should be sufficient, right?

Thanks.

elain

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