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Database Globalization Support Guide Oracle® Database Database Globalization Support Guide 19c E96349-05 May 2021 Oracle Database Database Globalization Support Guide, 19c E96349-05 Copyright © 2007, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Primary Author: Rajesh Bhatiya Contributors: Dan Chiba, Winson Chu, Claire Ho, Gary Hua, Simon Law, Geoff Lee, Peter Linsley, Qianrong Ma, Keni Matsuda, Meghna Mehta, Valarie Moore, Cathy Shea, Shige Takeda, Linus Tanaka, Makoto Tozawa, Barry Trute, Ying Wu, Peter Wallack, Chao Wang, Huaqing Wang, Sergiusz Wolicki, Simon Wong, Michael Yau, Jianping Yang, Qin Yu, Tim Yu, Weiran Zhang, Yan Zhu This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. 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Contents Preface Intended Audience xvi Documentation Accessibility xvi Related Documentation xvii Conventions xvii Changes in This Release for Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide Changes in Oracle Database Release 19c, Version 19.1 xviii Changes in Oracle Database Release 18c, Version 18.1 xviii Changes in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) xix Changes in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) xx 1 Overview of Globalization Support 1.1 Globalization Support Architecture 1-1 1.1.1 Locale Data on Demand 1-1 1.1.2 Architecture to Support Multilingual Applications 1-2 1.1.3 Using Unicode in a Multilingual Database 1-4 1.2 Globalization Support Features 1-5 1.2.1 Language Support 1-5 1.2.2 Territory Support 1-6 1.2.3 Date and Time Formats 1-6 1.2.4 Monetary and Numeric Formats 1-6 1.2.5 Calendar Systems 1-7 1.2.6 Linguistic Sorting 1-7 1.2.7 Character Set Support 1-8 1.2.8 Character Semantics 1-8 1.2.9 Customization of Locale and Calendar Data 1-8 1.2.10 Unicode Support 1-8 iii 2 Choosing a Character Set 2.1 Character Set Encoding 2-1 2.1.1 What is an Encoded Character Set? 2-1 2.1.2 Which Characters Are Encoded? 2-2 2.1.2.1 Phonetic Writing Systems 2-3 2.1.2.2 Ideographic Writing Systems 2-3 2.1.2.3 Punctuation, Control Characters, Numbers, and Symbols 2-3 2.1.2.4 Writing Direction 2-3 2.1.3 What Characters Does a Character Set Support? 2-4 2.1.3.1 ASCII Encoding 2-5 2.1.4 How are Characters Encoded? 2-7 2.1.4.1 Single-Byte Encoding Schemes 2-7 2.1.4.2 Multibyte Encoding Schemes 2-8 2.1.5 Naming Convention for Oracle Database Character Sets 2-8 2.1.6 Subsets and Supersets 2-9 2.2 Length Semantics 2-9 2.3 Choosing an Oracle Database Character Set 2-12 2.3.1 Current and Future Language Requirements 2-13 2.3.2 Client Operating System and Application Compatibility 2-13 2.3.3 Character Set Conversion Between Clients and the Server 2-14 2.3.4 Performance Implications of Choosing a Database Character Set 2-14 2.3.5 Restrictions on Database Character Sets 2-14 2.3.5.1 Restrictions on Character Sets Used to Express Names 2-15 2.3.6 Database Character Set Statement of Direction 2-15 2.3.7 Choosing Unicode as a Database Character Set 2-16 2.3.8 Choosing a National Character Set 2-16 2.3.9 Summary of Supported Data Types 2-17 2.4 Choosing a Database Character Set for a Multitenant Container Database 2-18 2.5 Changing the Character Set After Database Creation 2-20 2.6 Monolingual Database Scenario 2-21 2.6.1 Character Set Conversion in a Monolingual Scenario 2-22 2.7 Multilingual Database Scenario 2-23 3 Setting Up a Globalization Support Environment 3.1 Setting NLS Parameters 3-1 3.2 Choosing a Locale with the NLS_LANG Environment Variable 3-4 3.2.1 Specifying the Value of NLS_LANG 3-5 3.2.2 Overriding Language and Territory Specifications 3-6 3.2.3 Locale Variants 3-7 3.2.4 Should the NLS_LANG Setting Match the Database Character Set? 3-8 iv 3.3 Character Set Parameter 3-9 3.3.1 NLS_OS_CHARSET Environment Variable 3-9 3.4 NLS Database Parameters 3-9 3.4.1 NLS Data Dictionary Views 3-10 3.4.2 NLS Dynamic Performance Views 3-10 3.4.3 OCINlsGetInfo() Function 3-11 3.5 Language and Territory Parameters 3-11 3.5.1 NLS_LANGUAGE 3-11 3.5.2 NLS_TERRITORY 3-13 3.5.2.1 Overriding Default Values for NLS_LANGUAGE and NLS_TERRITORY During a Session 3-16 3.6 Date and Time Parameters 3-17 3.6.1 Date Formats 3-17 3.6.1.1 NLS_DATE_FORMAT 3-18 3.6.1.2 NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE 3-19 3.6.2 Time Formats 3-21 3.6.2.1 NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT 3-21 3.6.2.2 NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT 3-22 3.7 Calendar Definitions 3-23 3.7.1 Calendar Formats 3-23 3.7.1.1 First Day of the Week 3-23 3.7.1.2 First Calendar Week of the Year 3-24 3.7.1.3 Number of Days and Months in a Year 3-25 3.7.1.4 First Year of Era 3-25 3.7.2 NLS_CALENDAR 3-26 3.8 Numeric and List Parameters 3-26 3.8.1 Numeric Formats 3-27 3.8.2 NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS 3-27 3.8.3 NLS_LIST_SEPARATOR 3-28 3.9 Monetary Parameters 3-29 3.9.1 Currency Formats 3-29 3.9.2 NLS_CURRENCY 3-29 3.9.3 NLS_ISO_CURRENCY 3-30 3.9.4 NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY 3-32 3.9.5 Oracle Database Support for the Euro 3-32 3.9.6 NLS_MONETARY_CHARACTERS 3-33 3.9.7 NLS_CREDIT 3-33 3.9.8 NLS_DEBIT 3-33 3.10 Linguistic Sort Parameters 3-34 3.10.1 NLS_SORT 3-34 3.10.2 NLS_COMP 3-35 v 3.11 Character Set Conversion Parameter 3-36 3.11.1 NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP 3-36 3.12 Length Semantics 3-36 3.12.1 NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS 3-36 4 Datetime Data Types and Time Zone Support 4.1 Overview of Datetime and Interval Data Types and Time Zone Support 4-1 4.2 Datetime and Interval Data Types 4-1 4.2.1 Datetime Data Types 4-2 4.2.1.1 DATE Data Type 4-3 4.2.1.2 TIMESTAMP Data Type 4-4 4.2.1.3 TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE Data Type 4-5 4.2.1.4 TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE Data Type 4-6 4.2.1.5 Inserting Values into Datetime Data Types 4-7 4.2.1.6 Choosing a TIMESTAMP Data Type 4-10 4.2.2 Interval Data Types 4-10 4.2.2.1 INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH Data Type 4-11 4.2.2.2 INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND Data Type 4-11 4.2.2.3 Inserting Values into Interval Data Types 4-12 4.3 Datetime and Interval Arithmetic and Comparisons 4-12 4.3.1 Datetime and Interval Arithmetic 4-12 4.3.2 Datetime Comparisons 4-13 4.3.3 Explicit Conversion of Datetime Data Types 4-13 4.4 Datetime SQL Functions 4-14 4.5 Datetime and
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