Re: Choosing a Character Set

From: Daniel Dai <daijy_at_portal.com>
Date: 2000/08/07
Message-ID: <8mlkac$161f$1@news.cz.js.cn>#1/1

You can choose UTF8 when install the database. Since UTF8 is a unicode format, so all character can store in it. You should also set up your client enviroment(NLS_LANG) so as to access the character inside the database. Check "Oracle8 National Language Support Guide" for detail.

"Jasmine Cheung" <jasminec_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8m85mj$46$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I am now wondering what character set should be choosen
> for the database. I would need to store data for English, Chinese Big-5
> for most of the fields in the data. However, for some special fields in
> the tables, I would need to put Korean, Thai, or even Japanese data in
> those fields.
>
> Which character set should I choose? Is Unicode or any Multi-Byte
> character set OK?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
>
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> Jasmine Cheung
>
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Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT