Re: what characterset to use?

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:29:45 -0700
Message-ID: <1188325785.941031.133280@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>

On Aug 28, 10:54 am, Ben <bal..._at_comcast.net> wrote:

> After reading this it sounds like Oracle is saying that conversion is
> a bad thing and that the database character set should be set the same
> as the client. This is the reason why there is so much confusion, at
> least on my part, on character sets. I know that you can't just take
> this aside from all the rest of the facts of needing multi byte
> characters and supporting different client character sets but the
> wording in the documentation is just bad or at the least confusing

You might also try searching the metalink knowledgebase for the term characterset. You may wind up even more confused, but some of the docs there are enlightening.

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