Markus Scherer wrote: > > This means that Oracle mis-implemented the UTF-8 standard as it was specified at >that time, starting at least with Unicode 2.0. > No, Oracle does not mis-implement the UTF-8 standard but only limit its support to BMP only. Except the backward compatibility reason, Oracle also needed to be compatible with other database vendors such as IBM and Sybase's UTF-8 support up to BMP only and Microsoft SQL Server Unicode support to UCS2 then. Regards, Jianping.
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