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yeah, go with Unicode
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
news:3a6dfdf0_at_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 - 17:18:29 CST