On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:00:33AM -0500, Paul G. Weiss wrote: > From the latest docs: > AL16UTF16 => valid for NCHAR columns (CSID=2000) > UTF8 => valid for NCHAR columns (CSID=871), deprecated > AL32UTF8 => valid for NCHAR and CHAR columns (CSID=873) > > -and- > > Both UTF8 and AL32UTF32 can be used in NLS_LANG and NLS_NCHAR. For > example: > > NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 > NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 > NLS_NCHAR=UTF8 > NLS_NCHAR=AL32UTF8 > > Where does this information come from? Our db-admins are telling me that > in our current installation (10.1.0.3), AL32UTF8 cannot be used for the > national language character set, just the database character set. Could > someone please provide a pointer to the source of this information.
AL32UTF8 cannot be used for the *server* national language character set but can for the client. Tim.
