Re: Oracle 11 Server and Unicode UTF-8
From: John Hurley <hurleyjohnb_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <5d8c8811-a89d-48a0-81f0-27a1db3a7638_at_s41g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
Walt:
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <5d8c8811-a89d-48a0-81f0-27a1db3a7638_at_s41g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
Walt:
> Good question. WE8MSWIN1252 seems to solve most of our immediate
> problems, and we have plans to support multiple languages so UTF-8 may
> be overkill. In favor of UTF-8 is that there is some appeal in solving
> the problem "permanently", and of course there's the grumbling from the
> usual suspects about adopting a M$ standard. (c:
For 64 bit Oracle on linux systems ( such as OEL 5.4 ) ... when you create a database the WE8MSWIN1252 is the default for NLS_CHARACTERSET and AL16UTF16 is the default for NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET ...
So you can always go with the argument that you are just taking the Oracle recommended defaults ... and stay away from the whole other vendor. Received on Wed Jun 02 2010 - 10:19:28 CDT