Re: French characters

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 16:51:08 +0200
Message-ID: <e47g1d$ra8$2@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

Sybrand Bakker schreef:
> 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.
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Only if the db is created with an 8 bit characterset. Which -upon reflection- it must be (otherwise, NO extended character would ever be shown...).

I stand corrected

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Sun May 14 2006 - 09:51:08 CDT