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Re: Language Character Sets

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:56:41 +1100
Message-ID: <3a6dfdf0@news.iprimus.com.au>

Use unicode. Makes these sorts of worries utterly obsolete, at the slight cost of making all your French (and other Latin-based) data twice as long as it otherwise would be. But who cares? It's only disk space, after all. And disk space is cheap.

Regards
HJR "LF" <frolio_at_videoshare.com> wrote in message news:94kivb$p1g$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...
> Greetings All, I have a database that needs to accommodate seven different
> languages:
> French, Italian,German,Japanese,Chinese,Portuguese and English. Does
> Oracle 8i II
> have a character set that can handle all of these in one database? Thank
> you.
>
> LF.
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 23 2001 - 15:56:41 CST

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