Re: Converting UTF8 to WE8MSWIN1252

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:13:45 -0800, Rafsi wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I understand the WE8MSWI1252 is not a subset of UTF8 and that to use
> "ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET ....", the new characterset has to be a
> superset of the current.
>
> Thou i did run the database scanner utility (csscan.exe) specifying
> the target character set to be WE8MSWIN1252 and it detected the
> current to be UTF8. This utility reported only very few/minor
> dataconverstion issues, which can be easily ignored in my senario.
>
> My question is can i still execute "ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET..."
> command???
>
> Any help, any workaround is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> -B

Search metalink for INTERNAL_USE. But be aware that it's not supported by oracle. Received on Wed Mar 03 2004 - 02:51:51 CST