NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICSissue

I have a schema on database instance with following nls parameter defined
NLS_CHARACTERSET     AL32UTF8
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS     BYTE
I am trying to import this schema into another instance with following nls parameter defined
NLS_CHARACTERSET     AL32UTF8
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS     CHAR
But when I log into the new schema and view any table structure having varchar2 column shows (n BYTE) (eg. varchar2(x byte) ) where n is the length of this field. This basically prevents adding x lengths multi-bytes characters into varchar2 fields.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Did you export tables from first ("byte") database and then import to the second ("char") database? Then this could simply be the explanation.
If you look at the ddl statements coming from the export dump, for example using imp indexfile parameter, you will notice that character column lengths are explicitly defined as "x byte". So, you would have to pre-create the tables before importing.

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