Hello Chris We made a point to have all the components (servers and clients and db's) in the same character sets.
Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wed, January 09, 2002 3:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: US7ASCII, UTF8, characters sets, > conversions.....agghhhhHH!!!!! > > When I connected I got: > > "OWS-05101: Execution failed due to Oracle error -6550" > > Oops! Maybe they have the wrong character set. > > > > > > "Grabowy, > > Chris" To: Multiple recipients of > list ORACLE-L > <cgrabowy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > @fcg.com> cc: > > Sent by: root Subject: US7ASCII, UTF8, > characters sets, > conversions.....agghhhhHH!!!!! > > > > 01/08/2002 > > 04:05 PM > > Please > > respond to > > ORACLE-L > > > > > > > > > > So we stumbled upon the white paper... > > WHY WE ARE MOVING OUR DATABASES TO THE UTF8 CHARACTER SET > By David F. Pennington, GlaxoSmithKline > > This white paper raises a potential issue that DBAs might need to be aware > of. Basically, it has to do with certain characters not storing correctly > in the database because of different character sets being used between the > database, client and how the user enters data into the application. > > Has this issue been raised on the list before? > > Basically, were wondering how other DBAs/sites are handling/approaching > this > issue. > > Many TIA!! > > Chris > > I believe the below link will get you to the white paper on the IOUG > website. > > http://www.ioug.org/ioug_s/REPOSITORY_PKG.REPOSITORY_BUILD_VIEW_FORM?v_tec > h_ > > content_phy_Id=5310&v_trx=784353 > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Grabowy, Chris > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > This e-mail was scanned by the eSafe Mail Gateway > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-8?Q?=E0=E3=F8_=E9=E7=E9=E0=EC?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
