Re: Utf8 Oracle

From: Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 19:46:46 +0200
Message-ID: <3E8C7386.5070207_at_netscape.net>


TC wrote:
> My experience is that WE8ISO8859P15 covers almost all of europe as well as
> ASCII based special characters. I normally suggest using UTF8 or UTF16 only
> if a customer would want to store multi-byte Asian characters or when there
> is a mix of ASCII based characters and EBCDIC based characters. While cp1250
> is just Latin-1 in unicode parlance it is supported by ISO8859 characterset
> and cp1252 being another ascii based codeset, will possibly be supported by
> WE8ISO8859P15 (which supports the Euro and the Trade Mark symbols which are
> part of the cp1252 codeset).
<snip!>
Watch out with that! Microsoft (cp1252) maps the Euro differently than ISO Latin 15 does. 0x80 vs 0x(forgot).
If you even have to support the euro sign in a predominant M$ environment, go for WE8MSWIN1252!
The problem is historical... Definitions weren't ready in time - but that's another story.

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Regards, Frank van Bortel
Received on Thu Apr 03 2003 - 19:46:46 CEST

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