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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:28:13PM -0800, David Turner wrote:
> That's really odd. I set up a database with UTF8 and kept getting the error
> message
>
> create table dude(id clob)
> *
> ORA-22866: default character set is of varying width
>
> I am running Oracle 8.1.5.0.2 on Linux. My NLS_LANG = AMERICA_AMERICA.UTF8
Our NLS_LANG is set to ".UTF8". Your NLS_LANG is also not valid ! For using Intermedia for fulltext indexing your table also needs a (unique) primary key. Did you really set up your database with UTF8 ? Received on Thu May 18 2000 - 00:29:00 CDT
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