Gopal,
Are you saying with an undocumented parameter or command, I can alter database
(national) character set us7ascii even if my current (national) character set
is utf8?
Yong Huang
--- K Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
INTERNAL_USE is an keyword (to enable an undocumented feature)
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Yes. You can use INTERNAL_USE keyword to convert the database character set.
I think there is a utility called 'csscan' character set scanner which can
be
used to determine the possibility of the INTERNAL_USE conversion.
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Best Regards,
K
Gopal,
In case I didn't make my message clear, I wanted to know if using that keyword
allows us to change character set from a superset to a subset (e.g. from UTF8
to US7ASCII). The documented command ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET new charset
is only for changing from a subset to a superset. If
by: Subject: RE: alter database character
set (Was: RE: 'internal' role and 9i)
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I've never used that, but this syntax seems to work:
alter database character set internal_use us7ascii;
Of course, you could lose some characters or mess up your data completely
that way...
Tanel.
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