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Re: Oracle 8.i --> Oracle 9i + Unicode

From: Tanel Poder <change_to_my_first_name_at_integrid.info>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:17:18 +0300
Message-ID: <3f700f9e$1_1@news.estpak.ee>


> > Everything out of ASCII is at least double byte in UTF-8 - most of the
> > additional latin letters, cyrillics, and many others take up two bytes
in
> > UTF-8.
>
> Totally correct.
>
> O-umlaut and a-umlaut are double-byte in UTF-8, not triple-byte.

Well, despite of any standards out there, I used vsize command in Oracle to show, how many bytes a char really takes, and it took 3 bytes in above mentioned examples.

Tanel. Received on Tue Sep 23 2003 - 04:17:18 CDT

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