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UTF8 Vs AL32UTF8

edited Oct 8, 2009 4:15AM in Database Utilities (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered

Hi,

 
We have a 10.2.0.4 database with following character set settings

NLS_CHARACTERSET                         UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET         UTF8

we are migrating this database to another 10.2.0.4 database using data pump export /import with following database character settings


NLS_CHARACTERSET                         AL32UTF8
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET         AL16UTF16


Questions

1. Based on above, do you see any reasons for concerns because the charactersets are different between source and target database?
   If the answer is YES, please let us know what exactly our options are to address this?
2. Is AL32UTF8, a super set of UTF8 and hence will support all charactersets which UTF8 did?
3. Is AL32UTF8 the recommended characterset to be used by Oracle instead of UTF8?

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