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Confused about unicode vs Oracle character sets

413853Jun 8 2004 — edited Jun 8 2004

Hi there,

I wonder if I could take some advice?

I need to build a world ready aplication that is capabably of storing worldwide characters.

If I use Oracle character sets can this store all of the characters that I may come accross.

Should I just use UNICODE and be done with it?

Does this mean all my columns must be NVARCHAR rather than VARCHAR.....what is NVARCHAR for if VARCHAR can handle the characters ok????

Any best practice for this? Quite confused.

Regards
RIch

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