Glossary

CSS

Cascading style sheet.

character set

Defines the binary values that are associated with the characters that make up a language. For example, you can use the ISO-8859-1 character set to encode most Western European languages.

database access descriptor (DAD)

Describes the connect string and Oracle parameters of a target database to which an Oracle HTTP Server mod_plsql module connects.

encoding

The character set used in a particular programming environment for the locale to which an Internet application is serving. See page encoding, character set.

JSP

JavaServer Page. An extension to servlet functionality that provides a simple programmatic interface to Web pages. JSPs are HTML pages with special tags and embedded Java code that is executed on the Web or application server. JSPs provide dynamic functionality to HTML pages. They are actually compiled into servlets when first requested and run in the servlet container.

locale

Refers to a language and the region (territory) in which the language is spoken. Information about the region includes formats for dates and currency.

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A mail type that defines the message structure for different 8-bit character sets and multi-part messages.

monolingual Internet application

Each instance in the application supports a different locale. Users invoke the instance that serves their locale.

multilingual Internet application

One instance supports several locales. All users invoke the same instance regardless of locale.

page encoding

The character set an HTML page uses for the locale to which an Internet application is serving.

PSP

PL/SQL Server Pages

Unicode

A universal character set that defines binary values for characters in almost all languages. Unicode characters can be encoded in 1 to 4 bytes in the UTF-8 character set, in 2 to 4 bytes in the UTF-16 character set, and in 4 bytes in the UTF-32 character set.