Re: UTF-8 Unicode.

Thank you for the information..
We will probably use 9i for the multilingual database.. I was planning to use UTF8 but now I don't know if I should use AL16UTF16 instead? I look in metalink document and it seem that UTF8 is the universal character version 3.0 and AL16UTF16 is version 3.1..

Is there some criteria I have to consider before choosing between UTF8 and AL16UTF16 ?

Thanks again for those how help on this newsgroup..!

drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote in message news:<1ac7c7b3.0304221646.3cee7e87_at_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 Wed Apr 23 2003 - 08:12:23 CDT