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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