Given-
- Oracle Applications 11.5.4
- HPUX 11.0
- Support for English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplied Chinese required UTF8
- DB, forms, reports, and Apache servers all run with NLS_LANG=American_America.UTF8
Problems-
- Any Oracle reports generated require printing via a utility called pasta to handle
the UTF8
characters.
- Any sql*plus reports will need to be either filtered using iconv to convert to a
code set that the
printer understands, or a convert( column, 'WE8ISO8859P1') function will need to used
for ever
column on the extract.
- Dev 2000 patch set 6 cleared up a lot of initial problems with forms.
- We still have some nagging java codeset exceptions when a form is generated as UTF8.
The biggest issue is with the 3 tier archetecture, and the servers running UTF8, the
data returned
from the database is going to coded UTF8. No printer that I know of supports this
encoding and it
must first be converted before printing.
Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
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Ron,
Can you elaborate on the "pains" you are having getting UTF8 working
correctly?
We are preparing to convert some databases to UTF8. I'd appreciate any
specific details that you can provide.
We are using 8.1.7.2 and 9.0.1 on Sun Solaris 2.6.
Cherie Machler
Oracle DBA
Gelco Information Network
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Unless you have the need to support other languages other than English or
need to support characters
like the Euro, don't bother. You would not believe the pains we are having
here trying to get UTF8
working correctly... WE8ISO8859P1 or P15 might be a choice for you. See
what other listers have to
say.
Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
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I have always used US7ASCII character set. I am creating a new server and
database for an existing production application and I was wondering if I
should be using one of the newer character sets. Is there a newer
character
set that would still work with the old application data?
Ron Smith
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