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Re: Default characterset for database on Windows Servers

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:47:27 -0700
Message-ID: <1157784448.121436@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


dbaplusplus_at_hotmail.com wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:

>> dbaplusplus_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any advantages to using WE8NSWIN1252 windows? Why Oracle
>>> decided to use
>>> A different default database character set (not NCHAR character set is
>>> same on Windows and UNIX),
>> I can't speak with respect to 9i on this but there are features in 10g
>> that will not work with UTF8: Among them Advanced Rewrite.
>> --
>> Daniel Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> 
> This looks like some bug introudced in 10GR2 which should get fixed.
> UTF8 is still default chacater set in DBCA on UNIX. There must be other
> reason for using WE8NSWIN1252.

Eurocentrism? ;-)

-- 
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
Received on Sat Sep 09 2006 - 01:47:27 CDT

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