Sarada, NCHAR datatypes in Oracle8i do not support Unicode encodings. In Oracle9i, the NCHAR datatypes are exclusively Unicode datatypes and supports both UTF-16 and UTF-8. You can find detail info in the Oracle8i and Oracle9i Globalization Support Guide and also technical whitepapers in the Oracle Technology Network website:
http://technet.oracle.com/tech/globalization/content.html Take a look at the following whitepaper: Migration to Unicode Datatypes for Multilingual Databases and Applications in Oracle9i - Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of P.S.L.Sarada Devi Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: regarding unicode support in Oracle8i Dear Sir/Madam, We are trying to insert unicode chars(Hindi and Telugu) into a table in of data type 'nchar' in Oracle. We are able to do same thing in sqlserver. How it can be done in Oracle8i? Is there anything to be configured in Oracle server before doing that? Please mail me asap. Thank you all. Regards, Sarada.
