Re: Internationalization - poinetrs please

Re: My statement 2. I defer to your more recent experience. It always used to be the case (Maybe < 9i) that the default/example database built instructions from Oracle defaulted to US7ASCII but didn't make it clear. It was a prime case of "Many manuals treat it as a side-issue and stop just where you want to start."

I agree WE8ISO8859P15 (aka ISO8859-15) is the "replacement" for ISO8859-1 and gives you the Euro (€) amongst others. I realised I should have said that after I'd posted. You have to be aware that some older clients do not support this character set. For charactersets in general you need to decide what language(s) you need to support, pick your characterset appropriately, and double-check that all clients (SQL*Plus, forms, c-programs or whatever) will support it.

Ed's rule 2 is good. Text will always expand. And English is such a "loose" language you can write short phrases that make sense in context but are totally incomprehensible and untranslateable out of context.

And what happened to the original poster? "please pose a specific question" Received on Thu Dec 01 2005 - 02:55:58 CST