Re: Message about character sets on EXPORT

From: Marin Dimitrov <marin.dimitrov_at_sirma.bg>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:02:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0040E3DD.20020213095846@fatcity.com>

Original Message -----

> FYI, recently we upgraded our satabases from 7.3.4.5 to 8.1.7. I forgot to
> specify WE8ISO8859P1 when I created a new database so it was created as
> US7ASCII. I loaded that database with an import that had been done from a
> WE8ISO8859P1 database. Oracle had me trash that db and start over from the
> beginning. They said the data would be corrupted doing an import from a
> WE8etc. database into US7ASCII.
>

the original mail implied that importing from US7xx into WE8xx should not be a problem since the former is subset of the latter

Marin

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Re: Message about character sets on EXPORT - should I worry?