Re[2]: International Language Support Experiences?

Tanel wrote:
> IIRC, you can't store LOBs in UTF8 since it's a variable width charset?

and then Richard wrote:

> You are correct except it is supported with 8i, make sure compatible parameter is
> set to 8.1.x.

I bumped into this issue very recently. Oracle's direction seems to be to always use UTF-16 (or some other non-variable-width Unicode character set, depending on the release of Oracle you are running) for CLOB columns when the database character set is a Unicode character set such as UTF-8. I don't think I'd want to set COMPATIBLE to 8.1.x just to allow the use of UTF-8 in CLOBs, unless I had to do that to support legacy applications. To do that for a new app practically guarantees that you'll be doing a conversion at some point in the future, because eventually you'll want to be compatible with some release that is newer than 8.1.

Best regards,

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