Oracle9i Globalization Support Guide Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A90236-02 |
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This manual provides information about Oracle's Globalization Support capabilities.
This preface contains these topics:
This manual is written for database administrators, system administrators, and database application developers who need to ensure that their database or applications include globalization support.
To use this document, you need to be familiar with relational database concepts, basic Oracle server concepts, and the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle.
In addition to administrators, experienced users of Oracle and advanced database application designers will find information in this manual useful. However, database application developers should also refer to the Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals and to the documentation for the tool or language product they are using to develop Oracle database applications.
This document contains:
This chapter contains an overview of globalization and Oracle's approach to globalization.
This chapter describes how to choose a character set.
This chapter contains sample scenarios for enabling globalization capabilities.
This chapter describes linguistic sorting.
This chapter describes Unicode considerations for databases.
This chapter describes how to program in a Unicode environment.
This chapter describes globalization considerations for SQL programming.
This chapter describes globalization considerations for OCI programming.
This chapter describes globalization considerations for Java.
This chapter describes how to use the Character Set Scanner utility to analyze character data.
This chapter explains how to use the Oracle Locale Builder utility to customize locales.
This chapter shows how to customize NLS data objects.
This chapter describes the languages, territories, character sets, and other locale data supported by the Oracle server.
This chapter lists Unicode code point values.
The glossary contains definitions of globalization support terms.
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