migration from WE8ISO8859P1 to AR8MSWIN1256
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:40:36 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <0b17f29f-e888-4fd6-9718-32b1aaae2090@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
Hi,
I have a 9i database with WE8ISO8859P1 characterset,
the database is supposed to hold Farsi characters (weird!!), so my
client developers have coded a PLSQL
function that converts any characters read from this database into a
character from a non standard charset they had come up with.And they
are using this function to read from the database by a client and it
seems to be working because the data read from the database seems to
be shown in the right format.
It seems that this "non standard characterset" is nothing but the
AR8MSWIN1256 charset.
So knowing that, and knowing that AR8MSWIN1256 is not a superset of
WE8ISO8859P1, would creating a database link from the AR8 DB(10g) to
the WE8 DB(9i) and ship data through it converting it using that
function work?
it seems to me that any migration solution will have to use this function to work.
thank you Received on Sun Nov 23 2008 - 10:40:36 CST