Re: what is the implication of the US7ASCII binding.

    I don't know the specific answers to your questions, but US7ASCII stores characters in seven bits which limits you to 127 characters. Specifically you cannot store the accented characters so common in Western European languages. A common 8 bit character setting is WE..something..P1 which stores characters in eight bits and provides the accented letters. The default install for Oracle 8.1.5 on NT uses the 8 bit set while the default install for Oracle on Solaris uses the 7 bit set. You'll see a lot of 7 bit Solaris databases.

    Your best bet is probably to change from 7 to 8 bit characters which you can do through export/import.

Van

"Torben Friis" <tfriis_at_gmx.net> wrote in message news:8ndl18$n0a$1_at_news1.tele.dk...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to determine whether we should use iFS for
> our document store, but I'm a bit unsure about the impli-
> cations of the US7ASCII requirement of iFS. What does
> this mean? Can I store a Word document in danish and
> still get the content indexer to index this document based
> on the danish lexer? Does US7ASCII mean that I cannot
> add a describtion attribute to the documents and have a
> danish describtion, which is based on another character
> set?
>
> Thanks for any info relating these questions!
>
> Best regards, Torben Friis
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 16 2000 - 17:24:35 CDT