Re: Character set convention

From: Sybrand Bakker <postmaster_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:53:17 +0100
Message-ID: <943988081.3217.0.pluto.d4ee154e@news.demon.nl>

I must admit I am European and I have been working for an American firm, so I know that many Americans consider America and the world to be one and the same thing (which it isn't). More and more firms are going to have worldwide databases. You don't want, I assume, Europeans to give up there diacritical characters? The characterset you quote is the so-called Latin-1 alphabet which has still insufficient characters for Eastern Europe. You should be aware this characterset is the default for Oracle on NT, the US7ASCII applies to Unix ports only.

Hth,

--
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
<rs6kNO1SPAM_at_mail.com> wrote in message news:38431247.39603503_at_news.texas.net...
> Someone suggested to me that: Today in the U.S. it is much more
> common/conventional (without any particular requirement for doing so)
> to create databases using the WE8ISO8859P1 (West European) character
> set than the US7ASCII (default) one.
>
> Is this indeed the prevalent practice?
>
> Thank you
Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 12:53:17 CST