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Re: Codeset 850 Which CHARACTER_SET value ?

From: S Bufton <sbufton_at_x.x>
Date: 1997/07/19
Message-ID: <33d261e7.0@news1.ibm.net>#1/1

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:29:12, "Terry kavanagh" <tkavanagh.ford_at_e-mail.com> wrote:

> To anybody out there.....
>
> If I need my VARCHAR2 variables to cope with codeset 850 i.e. lots of "odd"
> European characters, then what value must the CHARACTER_SET by set to ?
>
> In Anticipation of a great response ....
>
> TVM : Ta Very Much.

Sorry, I'm not at work here, so this is from memory. You need to create your databases with ISO8859 support, which I think is something like WE8ISO8859P1 - but check that!

        Steve Received on Sat Jul 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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