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Oracle DB National Character Set Is Supported

CA Clarity PPM supports the following character sets:

• DB character sets: UTF8 and AL32UTF8
• National DB character sets: UTF8 and AL16UTF16

Consider the following points when using national DB character sets:

• Asian data is more compact in the AL16UTF16 character set than in UTF8. As a result, you can save disk space and have less disk I/O when most of the multilingual data in your database is Asian.
• We recommend using the UTF8 character set for European data. In this case, data in the UTF8 character set is more compact than in AL16UTF16.

See the Oracle documentation for the advantages and disadvantages of using different character sets. CA Clarity PPM works with UTF8 and AL16UTF16 National character sets.

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