Re: French characters

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:26:21 +0200
Message-ID: <3k5c625h5p1gsfhq2qi8u93mf76nvf02rq@4ax.com>

On Sat, 13 May 2006 17:57:25 +0200, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>The fact you have a front end that inserts and retrieves them
>correctly means 2 characters are used in the database, some
>other codeing mechanism, or you simply are lucky

if the client NLS_LANG is on 7-bit AND the server there is no conversion, so 8 bit characters will be stored. Sometimes stupidity pays.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Sat May 13 2006 - 12:26:21 CDT