Is there a way to select AL32UTF8 when installing? The 12c installer on Windows did not allow me to change the character set.
From the 12c Database Administrator's Guide:
"Oracle recommends AL32UTF8 as the database character set. AL32UTF8 is Oracle's name for the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode standard. The Unicode standard is the universal character set that supports most of the currently spoken languages of the world. The use of the Unicode standard is indispensable for any multilingual technology, including database processing."