Oracle8 does not support UTF-32 encoding form as database character set
or
in its access API. If you want to make simplicity for your case, you may
use BLOB to store UTF-32 in database without any character set
conversion.
If you have any more question, please send to me directly.
Regards,
Jianping.
attilla ong wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> If this topic has already been beaten to death,
> please direct me to the Oracle I18N expert that I know
> is on the mailing list :-)
>
> We have initially plan to save our data as UTF-32.
> We have opted for the simplicity over size of
> database. We just installed Oracle but realize that it
> supports only UTF-8 naturally (at least according to
> its documentation).
>
> The question is whether Oracle8 supports UTF-32
> natively without us having to coerce a character into
> a 4-byte datatype. If not, what are the consequences
> of insisting of storing an array of UTF-32 characters
> as an array of 4-byte-datatype (or whatever it's
> called).
>
> excerpt from Oracle 8's documentation:
>
> "The Unicode character repertoire can be represented
> in a number of different encoding formats. UCS-2 is a
> two-byte fixed-width format, UTF-8 is a multi-byte
> format with variable width. Oracle8 supports the
> UTF-8 format only. UTF-8 is an ASCII-compatible
> encoding scheme. The Oracle character set name for
> Unicode 2.0 is "UTF8". Unicode 1.1 has been supported
> with the Oracle character set name of "AL24UTFFSS"
> since Oracle7"
>
> Thank you.
>
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