Forms 6i and 10R2 database

Hi gurus,
i have an application with lot of forms and reports in 6i version. I need now to upgrade my database in 10GR2 (10.2.0.4).
Then, can i continue to use my old 6i forms and reports application without problem. Even it is not supported (by oracle), can i still work with forms and reports 6i and 10GR2 database ?
Thx by advance.

Forms 6i runs well against Oracle 10gR2 as long as you use a single byte codepage, eg iso8859p15.
As soon as you like to use Unicode, I would highly recommend to upgrade to Webforms 10g.
We have recently upgraded our whole application to Unicode Webforms, as we now have customers around the world (even in China or Turkey). All customers are using "the same code base" and their native language. Users can even switch languages back and forth on the run. Works like a charm.
I am so glad, we finally did this migration step, as more and more services and programs are used within a webbrowser anyway.
How many forms modules are you talking about?

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