Why is the 8 bits good and 7 bits bad? Is there any valid reason? -- Babu -----Original Message----- From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:58 PM To: jbdonga@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Nelson, Allan; rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gsais@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Which Character Set for 9.2 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:05:34 -0700, Janardhana Babu Donga <jbdonga@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear List, > > If it is not required to convert from US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1, I don't > understand why so many people are changing their character set to > WE8ISO8859P1 from US7ASCII. Could some one explain please? 7bits bad, 8 bits good. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l