CHARACTER SET CONVERSION

From: Harvinder Singh <Harvinder.Singh_at_MetraTech.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 07:11:13 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003BB53D.20011102070600@fatcity.com>

Hi,

I am putting this question again but we need little more input...

We are currently using database character set WE8ISO8859P1. As we are storing unicode data using NVARCHAR2 ..and we are having some problem with ODBC hadling NVARCHAR2...
So we decided to move to character set UTF8 so that we can store unicode data in varchar2 datatype....
what are stps we need to follow so that existing data is also UTF8 COMPLIANT........

Can we use alter database command to change the character set or we need to use EXPORT/IMPORT Utility.
Do i need to change all the existing varchar2 preicsion to 3 times their present value example varchar2(10) to varchar2(30) OR only those columns which wil store unicode data......
will it be possible to import data into column defined as varchar2 with UTF8 Character set which was NVARCHAR2 in export with WE8ISO8859P1 character set..
Do we need to change the NLS_LANG on each client machine to use UTF8 or only the database character set.......

Thanks
-Harvinder
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