1. Installation Guide for Linux
  2. Globalization Support

Globalization Support

Oracle AI Database Free is configured by default to process character data in all supported languages simultaneously:

  • The database is created with the Unicode AL32UTF8 character set. AL32UTF8 is the recommended database character set suitable for storing data in practically any language. Multiple languages can be mixed even in a single character value. While not a recommended option, you can modify the CHARSET parameter in the /etc/sysconfig/oracle-free-26ai.conf configuration file to any other supported database character set before running /etc/init.d/oracle-free-26ai configure.

    Supported database character sets are listed in tables A-4 and A-6 in of the Oracle AI Database Globalization Support Guide . Character sets from Table A-4 are preferred over character sets from Table A-6 because they contain more comprehensive character repertoires.

  • Oracle AI Database Free supports the same globalization features that Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition (EE) provides.