User`s guide

Location of Message Files
7-4 Oracle Database User's Guide
The character sets WE8BS2000, CL8BS2000, WE8BS2000L5, EE8BS2000, CE8BS2000,
and WE8BS2000E are the recommended database character sets. The other character
sets should only be used as client character sets.
The character set WE8BS2000E must be used as database character set if you want to
store the euro symbol in the database or if you want to use the euro symbol as the dual
currency symbol.
In addition to these supported character sets, if you are connecting to Oracle Database
installations with a non-BS2000 character set, then those servers can use any of the
character sets listed in Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide.
7.5 Location of Message Files
All message files are located in ORAMESG.LIB under the installation user ID.
7.6 Linguistic Definitions
All the linguistic definitions listed in the "Globalization Support" chapter of Oracle
Database Globalization Support Guide are available.
CE8BS2000 Siemens
EBCDIC.DF.04-2 8-bit
Central European (=
ISO 8859/2)
WE8BS2000E Siemens
EBCDIC.DF.04-F
8-bit
West European with
Euro symbol (= ISO
8859/15)
Note: A Unicode database character set is not supported on
BS2000/OSD. If you want to store Unicode characters in the database,
then you must make use of Unicode datatypes
NCHAR , NVARCHAR2 , and
NCLOB . During database creation you can specify either AL16UTF16 or
UTF8 as the national character set for these datatypes. For more
information about Unicode support, refer to Chapter 6 of the Oracle
Database Globalization Support Guide.
Name Description Usage