Re: How Oracle handling multilingual character strings
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:54:48 +0200
Message-ID: <8qo6uc$ic8$1_at_news.netvision.net.il>
MSDN (MS documentation for MS applications) states that Chinese letters require 1 to 2 bytes (it's OS specific, I believe). MS recommends (and I agree) moving to Unicode, you won't need to deal with character sets there.
Eric Leung <eleungks_at_netvigator.com> wrote in message
news:39CE2B7F.13F269F8_at_netvigator.com...
> Thanks for the response. Do you mean one Chinese character --> 2 bytes???
> in Java or in Oracle??
>
> PRdO wrote:
>
> > 2 Bytes.
> >
> > --
> > OdRPT
> > Eric Leung <eleungks_at_netvigator.com> wrote in message
> > news:39C8F9FF.72365CA_at_netvigator.com...
> > > We are also having multilingual problem, we are using Oracle 8.1.6.
And
> > > the
> > > Oracle is set up with UTF-8 as the charater set and national character
> > > set.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how many bytes does a Chinese (Simplified or
> > > Traditional)
> > > character take?
> > >
> > > We are inserting and updating the database through JDBC.
> > > Do we need to process the character string before pass it to the
> > > database?
> > >
> > > Eric Leung
> > >
>
Received on Mon Sep 25 2000 - 21:54:48 CEST