Add new Character Set (Arabic AR8MSWIN1256) to existing 11gR1 (Windows)

Hi all
I have an installed 11gR1 database on Windows 2008 platform with default character set of AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252.
How do I go about adding another character set (ARABIC_UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.AR8MSWIN1256) to the database so that it support storage/retrieval of arabic characters as well as English? Is this possible?
Or do I have to recreate the database with both character sets selected at creation time?
Cheers.

You cannot add a character set to an Oracle database. Your choices are (in increasing order of recommendation)
1) Use the NVARCHAR2 data type to store Arabic data. NVARCHAR2 character set is usually AL16UTF16, so you can store any language there. Cons: special handling must be programmed/configured in applications to use NVARCHAR2; some components, like Oracle Text, do not support NVARCHAR2 data type.
2) Migrate the character set of your database to AR8MSWIN1256. If your database is freshly created and empty, just drop it and create a new one. If the database is not empty but you have only pure ASCII data in the whole database, e.g. no special Windows characters, you can use csscan+csalter.plb to migrate. Search this forum and Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for instructions.
3) Migrate the character set of your database to AL32UTF8. The migration conditions are as in 2) above. AL32UTF8 is Unicode and you can store Arabic, English, French, and whatever your want. One disadvantage: Unicode is obviously a multibyte character set and Arabic requires more space in Unicode compared to AR8MSWIN1256, which is single-byte. But in AR8MSWIN1256 you cannot properly store Persian and some other languages written with Arabic script. You cannot store French, German, Russian, etc. either.
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