Oracle8i Distributed Database Systems Release 2 (8.1.6) A76960-01 |
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Heterogeneous Services Initialization Parameters, 11 of 18
Default value: |
System-Specific |
Range of values: |
Any valid language name (up to 255 characters) |
Provides Heterogeneous Services with character set, language, and territory information of the non-Oracle data source. The value must use the following format:
language[_territory.character_set]
Ideally, the character sets of the Oracle8i database server and the non-Oracle data source are the same. If they are not the same, Heterogeneous Services attempts to translate the character set of the non-Oracle data source to the Oracle8i character set, and vice versa. This translation can degrade performance. In some cases, HS cannot translate a character from one character set to another.
The language part of the HS_LANGUAGE initialization parameter determines:
Note that HS_LANGUAGE does not determine the language for error messages for the generic Heterogeneous Services messages (ORA-25000 through ORA-28000). These are controlled by the session settings in the Oracle database server.
The territory clause specifies the conventions for day and week numbering, default date format, decimal character and group separator, and ISO and local currency symbols. Note that:
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