How to Change National character set for a database

Hi All,
My database is Oracle 10G. Stand alone DB.
National character set for my DB is "WE8ISO8859P1" and need to change national character set to UTF8.
Need Help on this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Suresh

Please go through the topic,
[http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-is-national-character-set.html|http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-is-national-character-set.html] [http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/unicode-characterset-in-oracle-database.html|http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/unicode-characterset-in-oracle-database.html]
and decide whether you need migration . If you need migration then have a look at,
[http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/difference-between-we8mswin1252-and.html|http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/difference-between-we8mswin1252-and.html]
[http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/difference-between-we8iso8859p1-and.html|http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/difference-between-we8iso8859p1-and.html]
[http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/difference-between-we8iso8859p1-and_11.html|http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/03/difference-between-we8iso8859p1-and_11.html]
And always check for reports in csscan.
Edited by: user9533551 on 07-Jul-2009 04:29

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