Re: UTF-8 Unicode.

From: Paul Drake <drak0nian_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Apr 2003 17:46:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1ac7c7b3.0304221646.3cee7e87@posting.google.com>

poitrasg_at_crcsogema.com (Gaetan Poitras) wrote in message news:<3ebc2be2.0304220459.41a85bfa_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hello Amit, On my 9i database I have the NLS_LENGHT_SEMANTICS set to
> BYTE which is fair, then I know that my VARCHAR2(20) may containt lest
> than 20 Characters.. But I have a problem whit my 8i (8.1.7.0.0)
> database, when I select * from nls_database_parameters I see all
> parameter but there is NO nls_lenght_Semantics so I don't know if the
> semantics is CHAR or BYTE ?
> How can I found if it's char or byte ?
>
> When I create a database with Oracle DAtabase Assistant , is there a
> way to specify the database must be CHAR semantic ? Or I just need to
> change the nls_parameter is regedit ?
>

Gaetan,

Please check out the following note on Metalink.

Doc ID: Note:140014.1
Subject: ALERT: Oracle8/8i to Oracle9i using New "AL16UTF16" National Character Set

hth,

Paul Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 19:46:56 CDT