Globalization Support
For Oracle, globalization support means the assurance that database utilities, error messages, dates, times, monetary information, sort orders, numbers, and calendar conventions automatically adapt to the native language for the location where the access is occurring.
Oracle currently supports more than 55 different languages in nearly 90 territories, 84 different linguistic sorts, and 235 different encoded character sets. This means that there are possibilities for reaching nearly any user, client, or customer in nearly any location in the world in their native language.
The language-dependent operations in Oracle are controlled—you guessed it—by a number of parameters and environment variables both on the client machine ...
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