RE: Characterset Question

From: Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:50:11 -0400
Message-ID: <048f01da7c89$c533c8c0$4f9b5a40$_at_rsiz.com>



That should be a lossless conversion with the possible exception of clob/blob.  

However, figuring out the appropriate NLS_PARAMETER values for the client and the server have to be set right.  

How are you bringing data from Peoplesoft over to your new database?  

IF it is application to database, setting the client and server parameters should take care of it.  

IF it is database (old) to database (new), then there is possibly some data in the (old) database that is not actually US7ASCII and some cleanup may be required.  

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/nlspg/supporti ng-multilingual-databases-with-unicode.html  

should give you a leg up, and there are more similar documents on Oracle.  

I'm a bit rusty on this, my friend, but I think that is about correct.  

mwf      

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Scott Canaan ("srcdco")
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2024 2:23 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Characterset Question  

We are in the process of migrating all of our Oracle databases from Red Hat 7 to Red Hat 8. In creating the new databases in Red Hat 8, we've been going with the default characterset of AL32UTF8. Many of the old databases are US7ASCII. We are having trouble with applications trying to insert into text fields in the new database. In one case, bringing data from Peoplesoft that has a degree symbol fails because that comes over as 2 bytes instead of one. I thought that AL32UTF8 should handle those characters. What needs to be done to accommodate this?  

Scott Canaan '88
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