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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: US7ASCII / French Character
Actuall? it's just a matte? of makin? thin?s alwa?s look ?eadable.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) [mailto:mvergara_at_guidant.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:26 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: US7ASCII / French Character
Actually, you *can* store 8-bit characters in an US7ASCII database. Oracle has this...er...quirk that if you=3D20 connect to the DB and your NLS_LANG value is the same as the database's NLS_LANG value, Oracle does not do any checking or correction of characters. However, when you change your NLS_LANG value, Oracle will regurgitate=3D20 garbage for those 8-bit values.
We discovered this when we tried to transfer data over a=3D20 database link between a US7ASCII database and an WE8ISO8859P1 database.
Dick, however, is right. If you're gonna store 8 bit characters then you should have your database enabled for that. It will save a lot of heartburn in the long run.
Cheers,
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:DGoulet_at_vicr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:14 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: US7ASCII / French Character
Martin,
From someone whose been there, you'll need to upgrade to =3D3D
WE8ISO8859P1/UTF8 to store the western European characters properly. =
=3D
=3D3D
US7ASCII is a subset of WE8ISO8859P1, so you won't loose anything that's =
=3D
=3D3D
already there.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Brown [mailto:martinfbrown_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:54 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: US7ASCII / French Character
Is it possible to store and retrieve the special french characters in =
=3D
a=3D3D20
database with US7ASCII? Or, do I need to perform a characterset =3D3D
conversion=3D3D20
to WE8ISO8859P1 or UTF8 or something else? Thanks.
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