Re: Unicode support for Internationalization

From: David Russell <user_at_msn.com>
Date: 1997/12/02
Message-ID: <01bcff60$da5cf640$f15395c1@thor>#1/1

The best source of information relating to National Lanuage Support can be found in the Server Reference, it includes a full list of supported character sets and language settings.

Oracle 7 supports Unicode in the form of UTF2 which is a variable width multi byte character set, this form rather than the fixed width UCS2 encoding is supported because it is transparent to client application (through the appropriate mapping tables). To use this you need to create the database with the AL24UTFFSS characterset.

Oracle 8 supports UNICODE v2.0 in the form of UTF-8 which is a variable width multi byte character set, to use it you should create your database with the UTF8 characterset.

Always remember if you intend to use UNICODE you need end to end UNICODE support (in the client side).

Regards
David Russell Received on Tue Dec 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CST