Oops, some typo...

>>, I 'guess' that every datatype
>>start with a character has to do with national character set.
Should read
, I 'guess' that every datatype
start with a 'n' character has to do with national character set. I thought

Lee <hengchee.lee_at_aretae.com> wrote in message news:941ash$nlm$1_at_coco.singnet.com.sg...
> Hi,
> From the documentation provide by oracle, I 'guess' that every datatype
> start with a character has to do with national character set. I thought
> that if you gonna to store characters in non-English, for example,
 Chinese,
> Korean, etc., you'll need to use these type.
> But to my surprise, I manage to store Chinese text in a CLOB field. (I
 never
> tried NCLOB though), and when I create the database, I even just use the
> default which is US7ASCII for both Character Set and National Character
 Set.
> So my question is, what good is these type start with n for? And does your
> setting in National Character Set affect anything?
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> Thanks and best regards
> Lee
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Received on Tue Jan 16 2001 - 21:33:48 CST