RE: Which Character Set for 9.2

Why is the 8 bits good and 7 bits bad?
Is there any valid reason?

• Babu

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From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:58 PM To: jbdonga_at_ucdavis.edu
Cc: Nelson, Allan; rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com; gsais_at_co.palm-beach.fl.us; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Which Character Set for 9.2

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:05:34 -0700, Janardhana Babu Donga <jbdonga_at_ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> If it is not required to convert from US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1, I don't
> understand why so many people are changing their character set to
> WE8ISO8859P1 from US7ASCII. Could some one explain please?

7bits bad, 8 bits good.

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