Re: Unicode support for Internationalization

Warning...Ora8 does NOT support Unicode in NLOBs or CLOB's.

"David Russell" <user_at_msn.com> wrote:

>The best source of information relating to National Lanuage Support can be
>found in the Server Reference, it includes a full list of supported
>character sets and language settings.
>
>Oracle 7 supports Unicode in the form of UTF2 which is a variable width
>multi byte character set, this form rather than the fixed width UCS2
>encoding is supported because it is transparent to client application
>(through the appropriate mapping tables). To use this you need to create
>the database with the AL24UTFFSS characterset.
>
>Oracle 8 supports UNICODE v2.0 in the form of UTF-8 which is a variable
>width multi byte character set, to use it you should create your database
>with the UTF8 characterset.
>
>Always remember if you intend to use UNICODE you need end to end UNICODE
>support (in the client side).
>
>Regards
>David Russell
Received on Mon Dec 15 1997 - 00:00:00 CST