Martin, From someone whose been there, you'll need to upgrade to = WE8ISO8859P1/UTF8 to store the western European characters properly. = US7ASCII is a subset of WE8ISO8859P1, so you won't loose anything that's = already there. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Martin Brown [mailto:martinfbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:54 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: US7ASCII / French Character Is it possible to store and retrieve the special french characters in a=20 database with US7ASCII? Or, do I need to perform a characterset = conversion=20 to WE8ISO8859P1 or UTF8 or something else? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------