From: willevolve Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle Subject: Re: Utf8 Oracle Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:05:06 +0000 Organization: dBforums Lines: 21 Sender: willevolve Message-ID: <2728506.1049443506@dbforums.com> References: <2711083.1049127559@dbforums.com> User-Agent: dBforums X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dbforums.com X-Original-Trace: 4 Apr 2003 03:16:37 -0500, dbforums.com X-Authenticated-User: paul Maybe I trust UTF8 too much, but I do not need Asian, Thai or something else. I want cover languages in global usage Europe, America, maybe I can say expected ones. If I use UTF8 and varchar2 (not nvarchar2) on ORACLE 8.1.7. my storage will still cover different length of characters(?). Middle tier and client are Java (UTF8), no conversions at all (escape from mess), and I think that I will not have any further complications for some time! My documents from application are PDFs, with embedded fonts. On 9i this must work on same way! Do any of You see any problem? Kind regards MB -- Posted via http://dbforums.com