Re: disabling character-set translation in Oracle 8.0.5 possible ?

Don't use clob, long, varchar2 or char, use blob, long raw or raw.

Martin

Sjimmie wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a database that is accessible for a number of countries, some of
> them needing a different character set (latin1 or latin2 for example). Each
> country only has access to a part of the table, identified by the country
> ID. For example :
>
> Table X :
>
> CountryID Dataitem
> NL Dutch text
> PL Polish text
> US US text
>
> Now country NL only has access to the rows containing 'NL' etc.. (this is of
> course over-simplified. In reality we're dealing with a PeopleSoft
> application, but the principle is the same)
>
> The question is, can we have a database character set that does not use any
> translation (between client charset and database charset and vice versa) so
> the CLIENT will always see the correct presentation of their input ?
>
> (we are aware of the consequences this would have for e.g. central
> reporting. There would e.g. be no way of having one query to report over all
> countries and still have the report output the correct characters for each
> country).
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
Received on Thu May 18 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT