Linguistic Sorting Not possible with Unicode 2.0??

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1 total messages Started by Ram Pudupet Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:00

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Author: Ram Pudupet
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:00

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Help!!
  We are developing an international application that will run against a

Oracle 8 server. A decision has been made to use the Unicode charset
'UTF8' as the db charset. Oracle only supports the UTF-8 flavor of
Unicode encoding which is a multibyte variable width char encoding
scheme.
  In our application, we can set up the NLS_SORT parameter which will
determine the type of sorting we want on our db columns.(NLS_SORT can be

binary or language specific).
  Since we are  going to be using multiple lanuages, we need linguistic
sorting. However Oracle, says that if we use multibyte charsets,
linguistic sorts cannot be used and that we are stuck with binary sorts.

Is there a way out of this mess other than developing our own language
specific sort routines?...
:-<Ram
rpudupet@hotmail.com
rpudupet@earthlink.net

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