Re: Export-Import across character sets

From: Sybrand Bakker <postmaster_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:23:03 +0100
Message-ID: <944767430.5854.0.pluto.d4ee154e@news.demon.nl>

Especially for US citizens:
Please note WE8ISO8859P1 is equivalent with the Latin-1 alphabet and has definitely not to do with Iceland only. On NT WE8ISO8859P1 is already the default and rightly so as it covers the major European languages.
In an internationalizing world, with many international firms with international data in their databases, creating a database in US7ASCII is very undesirable, not to say more, not to say it is typically US-centric.

Best regards,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
Kenneth C Stahl <BlueSax_at_Unforgettable.com> wrote in message news:384FCC02.8E51C83D_at_Unforgettable.com...
> For some reason that totally escapes me, a data base that I work with was
> created with the WE8ISO8859P1 character set instead of US7ASCII. Does
> anyone know if there would be adverse effects if an export were taken from
> that database and then imported into a database with the US7ASCII
character
> set? We are no where near Iceland so nothing has been inserted into the
> database which would use Icelandic characters.
Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 13:23:03 CST