RE: US7ASCII / French Character

From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) <mvergara_at_guidant.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:26:29 -0700
Message-ID: <791D0E1ECDECD04D89205F33806FC38701E9213D@temmse06.tem.guidant.com>

Actually, you *can* store 8-bit characters in an US7ASCII database. Oracle has this...er...quirk that if you=20 connect to the DB and your NLS_LANG value is the same as the database's NLS_LANG value, Oracle does not do any checking or correction of characters. However, when you change your NLS_LANG value, Oracle will regurgitate=20 garbage for those 8-bit values.

We discovered this when we tried to transfer data over a=20 database link between a US7ASCII database and an WE8ISO8859P1 database.

Dick, however, is right. If you're gonna store 8 bit characters then you should have your database enabled for that. It will save a lot of heartburn in the long run.

Cheers,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:DGoulet_at_vicr.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:14 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: US7ASCII / French Character

Martin,

From someone whose been there, you'll need to upgrade to =3D WE8ISO8859P1/UTF8 to store the western European characters properly. =
=3D

US7ASCII is a subset of WE8ISO8859P1, so you won't loose anything that's =
=3D

already there.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Brown [mailto:martinfbrown_at_hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:54 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: US7ASCII / French Character

Is it possible to store and retrieve the special french characters in = a=3D20
database with US7ASCII? Or, do I need to perform a characterset =3D conversion=3D20
to WE8ISO8859P1 or UTF8 or something else? Thanks.

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