At 10:50 AM 6/19/2001, Jianping Yang wrote:
>"Carl W. Brown" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > If there are no surrogates in the database, is there any reason that I can
> > not change the database from UTF8 to AL32UTF8?
>
>You can change the database from UTF8 to AL32UTF8 in this case. Also you can
>use Oracle database scanner to scan your UTF8 database and if you find there
>is any pair surrogates inside, you can convert UTF8 into AL32UTF8 through
>imp/exp.
>
>Regards,
>Jianping.
Well, then, why don't you tell your customers that they will have to do
that, *before* they start using surrogates, and then get rid of "UTF8" in a
future release?
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