RE: Oracle does not (always) understand French - was RE: Use of t he q uote / apostrophe in text fields

From: Boivin, Patrice J <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:59:58 -0400
Message-id: <1A4AC4BAB9C50A42854582B69B08C034042628F3@MSGMARBIO05>

Stay away from 8-bit character sets if you can.  

In my 9i course the instructor said that Oracle is gradually moving toward 16-bit character sets, including unicode.  

Patrice.

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From: Robson, Peter [mailto:pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk] Sent: March 16, 2004 7:17 AM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: Oracle does not (always) understand French - was RE: Use of the q uote / apostrophe in text fields

More on a subject not unlike the apostrophe.  

One of our people entered the following text string into an Oracle field:  

'CRÈME DE LA CRÈME'
  This field was then inserted into another table on a remote instance, checked for comparison, and the French accents were found to have gone:  

'CREME DE LA CREME'
  Do a dump on this, and:  

Typ=96 Len=17: 67,82,69,77,69,32,68,69,32,76,65,32,67,82,69,77,69  

... notice that the third character, '69' SHOULD be '200'.  

Is it because Oracle prefers 'soixante-neuf' but doesn't like French... !  

Actually, this conundrum is all down to different character sets ( WE8ISO8859P1, and US7ASCII ) being established on different instances. Oh Really... Just something to watch out for.    

peter
edinburgh    

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