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Globalization Support
Globalization Support allows customers to run Oracle products throughout the world simultaneously while presenting content in the users' native language and locale preferences. Perhaps more importantly, Globalization Support enables customers to develop their own multilingual applications and software products using the Oracle technology stack including the Globalization Development Kit (GDK).

Technical Whitepapers

	The Power of Globalization Technology
	Oracle Unicode Database Support
	Best Practices for Globalization using the Oracle9i Internet Application Server
	Character Set Migration Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g
	Character Set Migration Best Practices for Oracle9i
	Migration to Unicode Datatypes for Multilingual Databases and Applications
	Efficient Use of PL/SQL String Functions for Unicode Applications
	Sorting Your Linguistic Data inside the Oracle Database
	An Overview on Globalizing Oracle PHP Applications
	NLS_LANG FAQ

Articles and Columns

	The Unicode Imperative Mar 2005
	The Globalization of Language in Oracle - The NLS_COMP and NLS_SORT variables Mar 2005
	The Globalization of Language in Oracle - National Language Support Mar 2005
	The Globalization of Language in Oracle - Terminology Feb 2005
	Create linguistic helper functions in SQL Sep 2004
	Create accented characters with COMPOSE and UNISTR Aug 2004
	Use the CSSCAN utility before character set migration May 2004
	Unicode Enables Globalization Nov 2003
	Globalize with Character Semantics Mar 2003
	Datetime Datatypes Add Precision Nov 2002
	Collation Support comparisons between Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server
	Timestamp and Timezone Support comparisons between Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server

Further Reading

	Oracle Globalization Development Kit
	New Datetime Data Types in Oracle9i
	Support Multilingual Data Easily With the Unicode Datatypes - SQL NCHAR
	Customize Locale information Using the New Oracle Locale Builder Utility
	Unicode 4.0

Learn More

·	Using the Character Set Scanner to migrate a database to support Unicode
·	Deploying Unicode with NCHAR SQL datatypes
·	Sorting multilingual data
·	Creating locale definitions with the Oracle Locale Builder
·	Using datetime and interval datatypes in a global environment

Sample Code

·	NCHAR Support for Unicode Data

Downloads

·	Character Set Scanner

Previous Releases

·	Oracle9i Database
·	Oracle8i Database

Documentation

·	Database Globalization Support Guide
·	Application Server Globalization Support Guide

Discussion Forum

·	Globalization Support

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