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Re: How to get UTF8 character array in Pro*C from a VARCHAR2 column from the database with character set equals AL32UTF8?

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 07 May 2007 08:35:42 GMT
Message-ID: <1178526940.352766@proxy.dienste.wien.at> 





OracleServer <helge.hauan_at_applica.no> wrote:


> - Oracle 10g Server

> - Database character set is AL32UTF8

> 

> In the database there is a table <equipm> with the column <nameOfuser>

> VARCHAR2(20).


> 

> In order to support multibyte character encoding in the existing

> database the VARCHAR2 column has been extended to VARCHAR2(60).




This is wrong, it should have been VARCHAR2(20 CHAR).



> Does anybody have some other (hopefully better) proposal than look

> into the Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide? From my point of

> view this guide contains several faults.




Too complicated?



Yours,


Laurenz Albe
Received on Mon May 07 2007 - 03:35:42 CDT












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