Arabic character set

HI
oracle 10g under win ex i have data arabic and english ,
which charachterset is support ?

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Arabic Character set conversion-help needed

We have our main database running in 10g (Solaris o/s) & planning to move these to RAC 11g.
One of our old oracle DB(8.0.5)/solaris, which is not used till recently need to upgrade to 10g Rel2.
I know Supported direct upgrade 8.0.6/8.1.7/9i -> 10g
Current DB: 8.0.5 (Character Set: AR8ISO8859P6)
Target DB : 10g Rel 2 (Character Set: AR8MSWIN1256)
I am thinking to go the following way by using exp/imp
8.0.5(AR8ISO8859P6) -> 8.1.7(AR8ISO8859P6) -> 10G(AR8MSWIN1256)
OR
8.0.5(AR8ISO8859P6) -> 8.1.7(AR8MSWIN1256) -> 10G(AR8MSWIN1256)
please advice
thanks

(1) At source db 8.0.5 (solaris)
PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-YY
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_CHARACTERSET AR8ISO8859P6
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSE T AR8ISO8859P6
$set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8ISO8859P6
$exp sys/dba file=full251109.dmp full=y
(2):>> At target db 10g R2 (solaris)
PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RRRR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_CHARACTERSET AR8ISO8859P6
NLS_SORT BINARY
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8
NLS_COMP BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE
$export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8ISO8859P6
$imp testdba/testdba file=full251105.dmp fromuser=PROFINAL touser=PROFINAL
*$csscan testdba/testdba FULL=Y FROMCHAR=AR8ISO8859P6 TOCHAR=AR8ISO8859P6 LOG=P6check CAPTURE=Y ARRAY=100000 PROCESS=2*
There is EXCEPTIONAL DATA in .err file+
clients accessing 8.0.5 dataabase uses characterset AR8IS08859P6, which is SAME as 8.0.5 database
-CSSCAN result->>[Database Scan Parameters]
Parameter Value
CSSCAN Version v2.1
Instance Name MIG1
Database Version 10.2.0.1.0
Scan type Full database
Scan CHAR data? YES
Database character set AR8ISO8859P6
FROMCHAR AR8ISO8859P6
TOCHAR AR8ISO8859P6
Scan NCHAR data? NO
Array fetch buffer size 100000
Number of processes 2
Capture convertible data? YES
[Scan Summary]
Some character type data in the data dictionary are not convertible to the new
haracter set Some character type application data are not convertible to the new characters
[Data Dictionary Conversion Summary]
Datatype Changeless Convertible Truncation Lossy
VARCHAR2 2,235,403 0 0 *1,492*
CHAR 1,097 0 0 0
LONG 155,188 0 0 6
CLOB 24,643 0 0 0
VARRAY 21,352 0 0 0
Total 2,437,683 0 0 1,498
Total in percentage 99.939% 0.000% 0.000% 0.061%
The data dictionary can not be safely migrated using the CSALTER script
[Application Data Conversion Summary]
Datatype Changeless Convertible Truncation Lossy
VARCHAR2 16,986,594 0 0 *1,240,383*
CHAR 164,114 0 0 0
LONG 7 0 0 0
CLOB 1 0 0 0
VARRAY 1,436 0 0 0
Total in percentage 93.256% 0.000% 0.000%
6.744%
[Distribution of Convertible, Truncated and Lossy Data by Table]
USER.TABLE Convertible Truncation Lossy
PROFINAL.BASE_MASTER_DATAS 0 0 *362,003*
PROFINAL.CODE_ALLOW 0 0 *53*
PROFINAL.CODE_ALLOWANCE_TYPES 0 0 *1*
PROFINAL.CODE_BONUS_TYPES 0 0 *2*
PROFINAL.CODE_BRANCHES 0 0 *2*
PROFINAL.CODE_CERTIFICATES 0 0 *94*
Kindly help,,,
Edited by: userR12 on Nov 25, 2009 1:43 AM
Edited by: userR12 on Nov 25, 2009 1:52 AM

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characterset UTF8
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Please, review this thread:
Re: Arabic Character set conversion-help needed
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-- Sergiusz

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If this is the "Universal" variant of XE server, then the Database Character set already supports most possible language scripts or alphabets, including arabic. AL32UTF8 is Oracle's implementation of Unicode support. (The site says the standard "...provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language")
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NLS_ISO_CURRENCY     AMERICA
NLS_LANGUAGE     AMERICAN
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS     BYTE
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NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP     FALSE
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS     .,
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NLS_TERRITORY     AMERICA
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NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT     HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
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Check Metalink
Note:179133.1
Subject:      The correct NLS_LANG in a Windows Environment
Note:187739.1
Subject:      NLS Setup in a Multilingual Database Environment
Note:260023.1
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SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
STARTUP MOUNT;
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-- Sergiusz

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