[svn:dbd-oracle] rev 496 - dbd-oracle/trunk

Author: timbo
Date: Mon Oct 18 15:57:03 2004
New Revision: 496

Modified:
dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm
Log:
Explicitly state that UTF8 is the only multi-byte charset/encoding supported
.


Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm
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--- dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm	(original)
+++ dbd-oracle/trunk/Oracle.pm	Mon Oct 18 15:57:03 2004
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@

=head2 DBD::Oracle and Unicode

-DBD::Oracle unicode support has been implemented for Oracle versions 9
+DBD::Oracle Unicode support has been implemented for Oracle versions 9
or greater, and perl version 5.6 or greater (though we I<strongly>
suggest that you use perl 5.8.2 or later).

@@ -1642,6 +1642,11 @@
is AL32UTF8, but if NLS_LANG isn't but the statement string is, then
Oracle needs to be told.

+=head2 DBD::Oracle and Other Character Sets and Encodings
+
+The only multi-byte Oracle character set supported by DBD::Oracle is
+"AL32UTF8" (and "UTF8"). Single-byte character sets should work well.
+
=head1 Other Data Types

DBD::Oracle does not I<explicitly> support most Oracle data types.