7 Globalization Support

This chapter describes the globalization support available with Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) for Fujitsu Siemens Computers 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:

O10NLS.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 wish 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.

7.1.2 Other Oracle Database Products

For the supported Oracle Database products, you can choose a language, territory, and character set from within BS2000/OSD by setting the value of the ORAENV variable NLS_LANG. Set this environment variable as follows:

NLS_LANG = language_territory.characterset

Where,

language is any supported language

territory is any supported territory

characterset is the character set required by your terminal

For example:

NLS_LANG=German_Germany.D8BS2000

7.2 Supported Language Conventions

Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) for Fujitsu Siemens Computers BS2000/OSD provides support for language conventions, such as day and month names, for the following languages:

American English: american (default)
Czech: czech
Danish: danish
Dutch: dutch
Finnish: finnish
French: french
German: german
Hungarian: hungarian
Italian: italian
Norwegian: norwegian
Polish: polish
Portuguese: portuguese
Slovak: slovak
Spanish: spanish
Swedish: swedish
Russian: russian
Turkish: turkish

7.3 Supported Territories

Oracle Database Globalization Support provides support for territory conventions, such as start day of the week, for the following territories:

America: america (default)
Czech Republic: czech republic
Denmark: denmark
Finland: finland
France: france
Germany: germany
Hungary: hungary
Italy: italy
The Netherlands: the netherlands
Norway: norway
Poland: poland
Portugal: portugal
Spain: spain
Sweden: sweden
CIS: CIS
Slovakia: slovakia
Turkey: turkey
United Kingdom: united kingdom

7.4 Supported Character Sets

Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) supports the following character sets for servers and clients under BS2000/OSD:

Name	Description	Usage
US8BS2000	Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit	American
D8BS2000	Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit	German
F8BS2000	Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit	French
E8BS2000	Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit	Spanish
DK8BS2000	Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit	Danish
S8BS2000	Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit	Swedish
WE8BS2000	Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04-1 8-bit	West European (= ISO 8859/1)
CL8BS2000	Siemens EBCDIC.EHC.LC 8-bit	Latin/Cyrillic-1 (= ISO 8859/5)
WE8BS2000L5	Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04-9 8-bit	WE & Turkish (= ISO 8859/9)
EE8BS2000	Siemens EBCDIC.EHC.L2 8-bit	East European (= ISO 8859/2)
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)

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 should 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.

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 on Unicode support, refer to Chapter 6 of the 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.