Re: CHARACTER SET problem

From: Frank Zekert <zekert_at_wmd.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:15:06 +0200
Message-ID: <6t2lii$amo$1@ns2.dokumenta.de>

You definitely have to re-create the database.

BTW: Funny thing is that ORACLE installation procedures seem to make every effort to hide one of the most common character sets (i.e. WE8ISO8859P1) from the user ....

Frank

dvsingh1_at_my-dejanews.com schrieb in Nachricht <6t2e6o$6b5$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>Hi...
>
>I have a critical problem with the character set . I created a
>database with the character set 'US7ASCII' . Now I need to insert the
>data from European character set
>'WE8ISO8859P1' .
> Should I need to recreate the database to insert
>european characters ? . Is there any alternative method to change the
>character set ? Please Advice.....
>
>Also advice on porting an 7 bit database ( e.g US7ASCII ) to an 8 bit
>database. Thanks .. Digendra Vir Singh dvsingh_at_amsoftindia.co.in
>
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Received on Tue Sep 08 1998 - 02:15:06 CDT