read through that link here in a minute, thanks.
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:27:58 -0500, Deanna Schneider
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not a DBA, but IIRC, our DBA's mentioned something about the fact that
> you can't have an nvarchar setting that isn't a subset of the varchar
> setting. In other words, you could say that the whole DB is UTF-8, and the
> nvarchar is specifically one of the asian language sets. But, you can't say
> the whole DB is ascii, and expect the nvarchar setting to do anything if you
> set it to UTF-8. It's not very intuitive, I know...
>
> Read this for the full scoop:
> http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/pdf/A76966_01.pdf
>
> Quote:
> When choosing an NCHAR character set, you must ensure that the NCHAR
>
> character repertoire is equivalent to or a subset of the database character
> set
>
> repertoire.
>
>
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