Entry of non-English characters into database

Hi
We are facing a problem in inserting non-English characters into the database.For example, we have a company name field which can accept German characters. This field has been defined as of varchar2 type of size 50 in the db. When we enter 49 English characters and then one German character, the database is throwing the error that the inserted value is too large for the column.Is it that the German character is taken as equivalent to two English characters ? Or is there any database level setting that can be done for this ? For the time being we have identified certain critical fields and have doubled the size of their fields in the db. But I guess there has to be another solution to this....
Please help.
TIA
Vinoj

Indeed, your German character is using two bytes to store itself. Consult the Oracle JDBC Developer's Guide.
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Hi
We are facing a problem in inserting non-English characters into the database.For example, we have a company name field which can accept German characters. This field has been defined as of varchar2 type of size 50 in the db. When we enter 49 English characters and then one German character, the database is throwing the error that the inserted value is too large for the column.Is it that the German character is taken as equivalent to two English characters ? Or is there any database level setting that can be done for this ? For the time being we have identified certain critical fields and have doubled the size of their fields in the db. But I guess there has to be another solution to this....
Please help.
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Indeed, your German character is using two bytes to store itself. Consult the Oracle JDBC Developer's Guide.
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