Re: Language Character Sets

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:24:54 +0100
Message-ID: <t6rq0sks309s4b@beta-news.demon.nl>

Apart from the Japanese and Chinese WE8ISO8859P1 should be capable to address your need.
However, the Japanese and Chinese forces you to use a two byte characterset. The most common one seems to be UTF8. In any case you need a characterset which is a superset of all proposed characterset. You can verify what is available by issuing select * from v$nls_valid_values.

Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"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 - 14:24:54 CST