Re: Choosing a Character Set

>>>>> "Jasmine" == Jasmine Cheung <jasminec_at_my-deja.com> writes:

 Jasmine> I am now wondering what character set should be choosen
 Jasmine> for the database. I would need to store data for
 Jasmine> English, Chinese Big-5 for most of the fields in the
 Jasmine> data. However, for some special fields in the tables, I
 Jasmine> would need to put Korean, Thai, or even Japanese data
 Jasmine> in those fields.

 Jasmine> Which character set should I choose? Is Unicode

UTF8 should work fine for your case, Unicode isn't supported in Oracle AFAIK.

 Jasmine> or any Multi-Byte character set OK?

Any multibyte is not okay. You need either UTF8 or UTF7 (AL24UTF...), based on Oracle 8.* or 7.3 respectively.

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Galen Boyer