Re: Creating XML from an Oracle DB

On 2006-11-16 10:49:48 -0500, Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate) wrote:
Chris wrote:
How about trying to create a brand new database using UTF8 *instead*
of AL32UTF8 ?

Oracle's "UTF8" char set is old and incomplete. AL32UTF8 is the newer,
more complete version.

Oracle's UTF8 is not only incomplete, it's also not really UTF-8, but a
rather weird combination of UTF-16 and UTF-8. Oracle's AL32UTF8 is
really what the rest of the world calls UTF-8. The difference in
encoding matters only for characters beyond U+10000, though, so most
users probably won't notice.

hp

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