Single-byte character sets provide better performance than multibyte character sets.

Unicode enables information from any language to be stored using a single character set.

Unicode is the only supported character set for Oracle databases created using Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).

Single-byte character sets always use 7-bit encoding schemes.

Multibyte character sets allow more efficient space utilization than single byte character sets.

Single-byte character sets always use 8-bit encoding schemes.