RE: Character sets

Andreas,

What version of Oracle are you using?

--Walt Weaver
  Bozeman, Montana, USA

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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Andreas Jung
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 1:45 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Character sets

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:05:04PM -0800, David Turner wrote:
> I really don't have a good grasp of character sets and am reading
> through the Oracle manual and still don't know which character set would
> be good for our international databases. One of our DBAs had suggested a
> character set of utf8, but I don't know why this would be better than
> one over another. Anyone know the most widely used character set aside
> from the default?
>
> One other thing. It looks like utf8 doesn't support clobs which I need.
> I need a character set that supports basically all the datatypes.
>

UTF8 usually should fit your need. We store XML document (UTF8) in CLOBS. Fulltext indexing with Intermedia works perfectly.

That's your choice,
Andreas

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