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Language and Territory Conventions

While the character encoding schemes ensure that the individual characters needed for each language are available, support for national conventions provides correct localized display of data items.

The specified language determines the default conventions for the following characteristics:

For example, if the language is set to French, the messages:

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
FRM-10043: Cannot open file.

will appear as:

ORA-00942: table ou vue inexistante
FRM-10043: Ouverture de fichier impossible.

The specified territory determines the conventions for the following default date and numeric formatting characteristics:

For example, if the territory is set to France, numbers will be formatted using a comma as the decimal character.