Hi >I have got a database that was set up with AL32UTF8=20 >character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR Char Set. =20 >Is there an easy way to just change the NCHAR set to UTF8? In the Globalization Support Guide you find some information about = character set migration. However, if few columns use NCHAR, it's probably quite easy to change = their datatype to CHAR (or NVARCHAR2 to VARCHAR2). Another info... you should use AL32UTF8 instead UTF8. HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l