Re: I Need advice for charset choice

Unicode is supported by Oracle and should allow you to use your list of european charsets.
Unicode is used by some european international agencies working with Oracle, to support all european charsets.

I am not sure however that there is a charset that encompasses asiatic. charsets and european ones, or that Unicode supports the Japanese charset (Kanji ?).

Patrick Wtterwulghe
Oracle DBA

Yann Doussot <doussot_at_gifrance.com> wrote in article <slrn6vpmmt.i95.doussot_at_draco.gifrance.com>...
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running Oracle 7.3.3 on a Sparc/Solaris 2.5.1. I have to
> design a database which will be used to store strings in different
> charsets (Latin1, Cyrillic, Greek and East European). Can this be done
> with in the same instance of Oracle, or do I have to create a database
for
> each charset ? Oracle doc advise to create the database with a superset
of
> all charsets that will be used, but what is the superset of all these ?
>
> Also I could add Japanese to the list, but I doubt it is possible
> to mix single byte charsets with multibyte charset ...
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
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Received on Tue Sep 15 1998 - 02:29:59 CDT