RE: Urgent! Change Character Set from WE8IS088591 to UTF8

DO NOT do this in 8i as you will not be able to restart the database.

Martin

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Sent: 14 February 2001 10:31
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

i once hear someone said that:
update sys.props$ set value='utf8' where name ='NLS_characterset'; and it seems it do work,but not konw whether it is legal,and no experience in production database.
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:40 AM

> I have a 8.1.6.0.0 database.
>
> What is the best way to change Character Set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8
>
> from:
> NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
>
> To:
> NLS_CHARACTERSET UTF8
>
> Thanks
>
> Larry
>
>
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