Re: NLS Character Sets

From: Dominic Baines <rdab100_at_hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:05:03 +0100
Message-ID: <35AC7ECF.A4BA1671@hermes.cam.ac.uk>

Yup I know about the lists, there are about 4 pages of them. But anyone know where to get a printed out copy of them all along with the code for the appropriate character ? This is what I really need.

Bill Hayden wrote:

> 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.
>
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Received on Wed Jul 15 1998 - 05:05:03 CDT