To change the character set to another that is not recognized as a superset
use:
Alter database db-name character set INTERNAL_USE new_character_set
This parameter is active for oracle 8.1 and above.
Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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This command is NOT supported by Oracle and Oracle would not
guarantee that your data is not corrupted -- particularly if you have
not run the character-set-scanner to verify it.
Hemant
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To change the character set to another that is not recognized as a
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We are currently having a character set problem. We have a
third-party product that is used for on-line courses (Prometheus from
Blackboard, Inc.). The character set that the instance was created with
was US7ASCII. The vendor says it should be WE8ISO8859P1, but we need to
support Chinese
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Scott,
1) I have to agree with Oracle's statement that you need to have a UTF8
database to handle Chinese and Japanese characters. These characters
require multi-byte encoding to be stored and therefore a UTF8 database
is the way to go.
2) I am not sure where the Chinese and Japanese
