Western European database characterset

  • From: "Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" <Markus.Zwettler@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:32:26 +0000

Hi,

We are using AL32UTF8 as our standard database characterset mostly having 
Windows clients using WE8MSWIN1252 as client characterset.
Applications not able to use unicode are using the database characterset 
WE8ISO8859P15 today and WE8ISO8859P1 before (legacy).

I don't feel comfortable with both ISO database charactersets as there might be 
conversion problems with windows clients on some codepages.
I would also use WE8MSWIN1252 as database characterset in that case although we 
have some interfaces and middleware running on unix.
Everyone agrees? Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Markus

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