What is codepoint of character set?

From: nirav <shivam71_at_gmail.com>
Date: 14 Dec 2005 23:15:17 -0800
Message-ID: <1134630917.121933.274250@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Hi ,

I can not understand meaning of a sentance, present in Oracle concepts manual..In the chapter of Native Datatypes, it says:

The length semantics of character datatypes can be measured in bytes or characters.

Character semantics treat strings as a sequence of characters. "A character is technically a codepoint of the database character set."

Here the last sentence : "A character is technically a codepoint of the database character set." is not clear to me..can u pl. explain what is the meaning of codepoint of db char. set?

Thanks,
N. Received on Thu Dec 15 2005 - 01:15:17 CST