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National Language Settings

National Language Support (NLS) is provided by the Oracle Application Server Integration Adapter for IMS/DB for the following languages:

• Arabic

• English (the default)

• Hebrew

• Japanese

• Korean

• Simple Chinese

• Spanish

• Traditional Chinese

This appendix describes how to set up language support.

Defining the Language and Codepage

1. On the machine where Oracle Studio is installed, from the Start menu, choose Start > Programs > Oracle > Studio > Studio.

2. Select the machine defined in "Configuring Oracle Connect for IMS/DB".

3. Right-click the NAV binding node and Choose Edit Binding.

4. In the Binding Properties tab, click the + next to the misc node.

   

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5. Enter a valid value for the language. The following language codes are valid:

   ARA - Arabic

   ENG - English

   HEB - Hebrew

   JPN - Japanese

   KOR - Korean

   SCHI - Simple Chinese

   SPA - Spanish

   TCHI - Traditional Chinese

6. Optionally, in the codepage field, specify the codepage required.

   You can skip this step, and just specify a language (see the previous step). In this case, a default codepage is used. The following shows the default codepages:

   ARA - AR8ISO8859P6

   ENG - EBCDIC

   HEB - IW8EBCDIC424

   JPN - JA1616DBCS

   KOR - KO16DBCS

   SCHI - ZHS16DBCS

   SPA - WE8EBCDICLATIN

   TCHI - ZHT16DBCS

   The following table lists the supported codepages according to language:

   Table F-1  Supported Codepages

   Language	Supported Codepage Values	Description
   Arabic	AR8ISO8859P6	ISO 8859-6 Arabic (ASCII)
   English	EBCDIC	-
   English	D8EBCDIC273	EBCDIC codepage 273 8-bit Austrian German
   English	DK8EBCDIC277	EBCDIC codepage 277 8-bit Danish
   English	S8EBCDIC278	EBCDIC codepage 278 8-bit Swedish
   English	I8EBCDIC280	EBCDIC codepage 280 8-bit Italian
   English	WE8EBCDIC285	EBCDIC codepage 285 West European
   English	F8EBCDIC297	EBCDIC codepage 297 8-bit French
   English	WE8EBCDIC500	EBCDIC codepage 500 West European
   Hebrew	IW8EBCDIC424	EBCDIC codepage 424 8-bit Latin/Hebrew (new EBCDIC)
   Hebrew	IW8EBCDIC806	EBCDIC codepage 806 8-bit Latin/Hebrew (old EBCDIC)
   Japanese	JA16DBCS	IBM EBCDIC 16-bit with Latin characters
   Japanese	JA16EBCDIC930	IBM DBCS codepage 390 16-bit This codepage has no encoding for lowercase Latin letters. All resources should be defined in uppercase.
   Korean	KO16DBCS	IBM EBCDIC 16-bit
   Simple Chinese	ZHS16DBCS	IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Simple Chinese
   Spanish	WE8EBCDICLATIN	EBCDIC codepage with Spanish extensions
   Spanish	WE8EBCDIC284	EBCDIC codepage 284 8-bit Latin American/Spanish
   Traditional Chinese	ZHT16DBCS	IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Traditional Chinese

   Note: The Codepages for the European languages are based on English being chosen as the language in the Language field.