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shailesh.mishra_at_ways.com (shaildisco) wrote:
>Hi
>
>We r trying to change database character set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8
>on windows NT having oracle 8.0.4.
>We have tried all ways as mentioned in oracle docs as well as
>Metalink.But getting the error that UTF8 is not the superset.
>
>Please can u confirm that
>
>1.Weather is it possible to change from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8 using
>Alter database command. (Server side). We are getting error that
>target is not superset.
>
>2. If not then is it necessary to create db in US7ASCII to later chang
>to UTF8.
>3. If yes then does it have any relation with Windos NT or Unix OS
>supported character sets.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Shailesh Mishra
If you want to change the charecter set you must bild an new database. There is
no other way to solve this problem.
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