All, We have just been informed that we may need to support the Russian, Chinese and Haitian Creole languages in our database (as well as American English). I started looking at the Oracle docs and will continue to do so. The only think I found so far is maybe using a universal character set (AL32UTF8). Does this make sense? Am I way off base? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l