Re: UTF-8 to ASCII 7 conversion?

Hi!

We are having some trouble with two instances, the other one uses UTF8 and the other WE8ISO8859P1 charcter sets. Database links are giving "unpredictable results." RDBMS 9.0.1.4 Does anybody know this issue, and how to fix it?

-Asko-
"Ed Kulis" <ekulis_at_apple.com> wrote in message news:B9E6E9B7.44C7%ekulis_at_apple.com...
> On 10/31/02 8:19 AM, in article 3DC157F1.1E76CA3_at_exesolutions.com, "Daniel
> Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > Why not just use UTF8 everywhere? I never build a database anymore with
any
> > other character set. And I've yet to find a problem.
>
>
> I'd love to use UTF8 everywhere but everywhere here at Apple is a big
where.
>
> We've got external vendors, SAP, Vitria, Vantive Clients, internal
> interface/GUI conversion standards, etc., that all have their own idea
about
> character sets.
>
> We just found out this morning that our soon-to-be-replaced-by-Peoplesoft
> Vantive client makes up their own 6 octet codes for characters like .
> which shows on my screen as a dark little Apple logo. The Apple logo is
> actually in Unicode but our client doesn't use the UTF8 to represent the
> Apple.
>
> It's looking like we'll need to do out own conversions via a set of safe
> character sets since "safe" depends on who we're sending it to.
>
> -ed
>
Received on Fri Nov 01 2002 - 06:22:54 CST