User`s guide

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Globalization Support 7-1
7 Globalization Support
This chapter describes the globalization support available with Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 (11.2) for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD, with information about the following:
■ Specifying a Language, Territory, and Character Set
■ Supported Language Conventions
■ Supported Territories
■ Supported Character Sets
■ Location of Message Files
■ Linguistic Definitions
Character set tables, and country and regional information (relating to date format,
names of months, and so on) are dynamically loaded at run time. This reduces the
actual storage requirements and allows new languages to be added in the future
without the need to relink all applications.
The files containing character-set information are created in the current BS2000 user
ID. The names of these files have the following format:
O11NLS.LXnnnnn.NLB
These files are for internal use only. You should not make changes to them. If you
need a character set, language, or territory code that is not present, then contact your
Oracle Support Services representative, who will be able to check whether any
updates are available.
User-defined character sets as documented in the Oracle Database Globalization Support
Guide are not supported for this release.
7.1 Specifying a Language, Territory, and Character Set
To choose the language, territory, and character set that you want to work with, you
must carry out separate procedures for Oracle Database and the supported Oracle
Database utilities.
7.1.1 Oracle Database
For the Oracle Database, your database administrator sets the NLS_LANGUAGE and NLS_
TERRITORY
parameters in the initialization files as described in the Oracle Database
Globalization Support Guide.