Database SID name in Japanese

From: Siddharth Aggarwal <siddharth_aggarwal_at_persistent.co.in>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:52:20 +0530
Message-ID: <a6agtl$8cv$1@news.vsnl.net.in>

Hi,

I am working on an internationalization project and I want to create a Oracle 8i database with a Japanese name. The Oracle8i database server is installed on a Japanese NT machine. However on creating a database with name as ,ã,ä (I don't know if this will appear properly in my posted message but the unicode values of this string are 3085 and 3086), I get an error-i.e. invalid database name.
I wonder why it doesn't take Japanese database names for server installed on a Japanese Operating System. will I have to give a English name on Japanese OS too? Any comments?

Regards,
Siddharth. Received on Fri Mar 08 2002 - 08:22:20 CST