RE: Character sets

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:13:06 -0700
Message-Id: <10711.124701@fatcity.com>

No, it can be done. WE8ISO8859P1 is a superset of US7ASCII, so the characterset change is no problem.

And, WE8ISO8859P1 allows accented characters. We're running a German interface on one of our databases.

Happy Holidays,

--Walt Weaver
Bozeman, Montana, USA

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From: paquette stephane [mailto:stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 5:37 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Character sets

Hi,

There is not.=20
You must export, rebuild and import.

Another thing, I'm not sure but I think that WE8ISO8859P1 does not allow the Euro symbol.

HTH
--- lerobe - Lee Robertson <LEROBE_at_acxiom.co.uk> a =E9crit=A0: > All,
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> Apparently we have a DB that was historically
> created with the wrong
> character set. It should be WE8ISO8859P1 but has
> been set at US7ASCII. The
> DB needs to be able to support German characters
> (such as =FC, =F6, =DF). Please
> tell me there is a way around this other than
> recreating the entire database
> (it is a fairly large DB).
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