UTF8 or AL16UTF16

[Harvinder Singh]

Title: Deleting files on w2k

Hi,

We need to store the unicode data in column defined as varchar2 datatype so we have to use unicode data set.

In 9i which is the preferred value for (NLS_CHARACTERSET and NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET)

UTF8 or AL16UTF16 and why?

Thanks

-Harvinder