Re: NLS Character Sets

From: Bill Hayden <dba0064_at_edwardjones.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:23:22 -0500
Message-ID: <35ABBE3A.DEC9DCEA@edwardjones.com>

Dominic Baines wrote:
>
> Is there a document (URL) that actually lists all the character sets, in
> long form, as I have a couple of user projects that need some amazing
> combinations of characters that don't seem to be be covered under one
> set and I want to look at the character sets to determine which to use
> and how to convert from one to another.
>
> The sorts of things are:
> All possible mathematical, scientific and biological symbols.
> Asian (multiple), Oriental (Multi bit), Eastern European alphabets.
> Standard ASCII
> All possible Western European language letter combinations.
>
> Any advise greatly appreciated.
>
> Dominic Baines

The character sets are given in the server reference manual. It looks like what you need is some form of unicode. UTF2 unicode encoding is supported in Oracle 7 and UCS8 encoding is supported in Oracle 8.

Bill Hayden
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(bill.hayden_at_edwardjones.com) Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 15:23:22 CDT