Oracle-L: Unicode: UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion

From: <alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:19:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D579F.20031103141932@fatcity.com>

Hi,

I have a quick question that doesn't seem to be answered in the documentation. We have a database that has a database character set of WE8ISO8859P1 and a national character set of UTF-16. Currently we are not using any NCHAR, NVARCHAR2 or NCLOB columns, but would like to soon. However, we'd like to use UTF-8 instead of UTF-16. Since there should be no conversion necessary, is there any reason why I can't just alter the national character set to UTF-8? Or am I missing something?

While we are on the subject, can anyone recommend for/against UTF-8 or UTF-16. I have read the pros and cons in the manual, but actual experiences could change my mind.

Thanks,

Alan

Alan Aschenbrenner
Oracle DBA
IHS Group
alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com

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