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National Language Support

This appendix lists supported sort sequences, character sets, and languages and territories for Oracle products. This appendix is not a detailed discussion of Oracle National Language Support (NLS).

See Also: National Language Support is described in detail in the Oracle8i Server Concepts and the Oracle8i Server Reference guides.

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Supported Sort Sequences

Available linguistic sort sequences are:

Arabic	German_Din	Italian	Spanish
Czech	XGerman	Latin	XSpanish
Danish	XGerman_Din	Norwegian	Swedish
XDanish	Greek	Polish	Swiss
Dutch	Hebrew	Russian	Turkish
Finnish	Hungarian	Slovak	Turkish
German	Icelandic	XSlovak	West_European

Supported Character Sets

Oracle NLS supports the following character sets:

7-Bit Character Sets

US7ASCII	US 7-bit ASCII(default)
D7DEC	DEC German 7-bit
F7DEC	DEC French 7-bit
S7DEC	DEC Swedish 7-bit
E7DEC	DEC Spanish 7-bit
AR7ASMO449PLUS	Arabic/Latin ASMO-Plus 7-bit
TR7DEC	DEC Turkish 7-bit
SF7ASCII	Finnish 7-bit ASCII extension
NDK7DEC	DEC Norwegian/Danish 7-bit
I7DEC	DEC Italian 7-bit
NL7DEC	DEC Dutch 7-bit
CH7DEC	DEC Swiss 7-bit
SF7DEC	DEC Finnish 7-bit

8-bit Character Sets

US8ICL	ICL EBCDIC 8-bit US
WE8ICL	ICL EBCDIC 8-bit West European
EE8PC853	IBM PC 8-bit East European - code page 853
LT8PC772	IBM PC 8-bit Lithuanian - code page 772
LT8PC774	IBM PC 8-bit Lithuanian - code page 774
DK8EBCDIC277	EBCDIC 8-bit Danish - code page 277
WE8DEC	DEC West European 8-bit
WE8HP	HP 8-bit West European
US8PC437	IBM PC 8-bit U. S. - code page 437
WE8EBCDIC37	EBCDIC 8-bit West European - code page 37
WE8EBCDIC500	EBCDIC 8-bit West European - code page 500
EL8EBCDIC875	EBCDIC 8-bit Greek - code page 875
WE8PC850	IBM PC 8-bit West European - code page 850 (for use with HFT terminals)
WE8ISO8859P1	ISO 8859-1 West European 8-bit
EE8ISO8859P2	ISO 8859-2 East European 8-bit
SE8ISO8859P3	ISO 8859-3 South European 8-bit
CL8ISO8859P5	ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic 8-bit
CL8MSWIN1251	Windows Cyrillic 8-bit (Replaces CL8MSWINDOW31)
CLMACCYRILLIC	Mac Cyrillic 8-bit
EL8ISO8859P7	ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek 8-bit
IW8ISO8859P8	ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew (Iwriet) 8-bit
WE8ISO8859P9	ISO 8859-9 West European/Turkish 8-bit
EL8DEC	DEC Latin/Greek 8-bit
TR8DEC	DEC Turkish 8-bit
EL8PC437S	IBM-PC Special American/Greek character set
EEC8EUROPA3	EEC's EUROPA3 West European/Greek 8-bit character set
RU8BESTA	Latin/Cyrillic BESTA 8-bit
RU8PC866	IBM-PC Latin/Cyrillic 8-bit - code page 866
RU8PC855	IBM-PC Latin/Cyrillic 8-bit - code page 855
D8EBCDIC273	EBCDIC 8-bit Austrian/German - code page 273/1
I8EBCDIC280	EBCDIC 8-bit Italian - code page 280/1
N8PC865	IBM PC 8-bit Norwegian - code page 865
TH8TISASCII	Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 ASCII 8-bit
TH8TISEBCDIC	Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 EBCDIC 8-bit
TR8PC857	IBM-PC Turkish 8-bit - code page 857
NEE8ISO8859P4	ISO 8859-4 North and North-east European
AR8ISO8859P6	Arabic/Latin ASMO-Plus 8-bit (not valid as a storage character set)
AR8ASMO708PLUS	ISO 8859-6 Latin /Arabic
TR8ISO8859P9	Turkish version ISO 8859-9 West European

Multi-Byte Character Sets

JA16VMS	Japanese VMS Kanji
JA16EUC	Japanese Extended UNIX Code
JA16EBCDIC930	Japanese
JA16SJIS	Japanese Shift-JIS
JA16DBCS	Japanese IBM
KO16KSC5601	Korean KSC5601
KO16DBCS	Korean IBM
ZHS16CGB231280	Chinese GB2312-80
ZHS16GBK	Chinese GBK
ZHT32CNS11643-86	Taiwan Traditional Chinese
ZHT16BIG5	BIG5 Traditional Chinese
ZHT32EUC	Traditional Chinese Extended UNIX Code

Supported Languages and Territories

Table A-1 lists language and territory names, and the corresponding NLS values. The table also lists the recommended character set for each language/territory pair.

Table A-1 Languages, Territories, and Recommended Character Sets  

Language Name	NLS Value	Territory Name	NLS Value	Recommended Character Set
American	american	United States	america	US7ASCII
Arabic	arabic	United Arab Emirates	"united arab emirates"	AR8ISO8859P6
Brazilian Portuguese	"brazilian portuguese"	Brazil	brazil	WE8DEC
Canadian French	frc	Canada (Quebec)	frc	WE8DEC
Czech	czech	Czech Republic	czechoslovakia	EE8ISO8859P2
Danish	danish	Denmark	denmark	WE8DEC
Dutch	dutch	The Netherlands	"the netherlands"	WE8DEC
Finnish	finnish	Finland	finland	WE8DEC
French	french	France	france	WE8DEC
German	german	Germany	germany	WE8DEC
Greek	greek	Greece	greece	EL8DEC
Hungarian	hungarian	Hungary	hungary	WE8ISO8859P2
Icelandic	is	Iceland	is	WE8ISO8859P1
Italian	italian	Italy	italy	WE8DEC
Japanese	japanese	Japan	japan	JA16EUC
Korean	korean	Korea	korea	KO16KSC5601
Lithuanian	lt	Lithuania	lt	NEE8ISO8859P4
Mexican Spanish	esm	Mexico	esm	WE8DEC
Norwegian	norwegian	Norway	norway	WE8DEC
Polish	polish	Poland	poland	EE8ISO8859P2
Portuguese	portuguese	Portugal	portugal	WE8DEC
Russian	russian	CIS	cis	CL8ISO8859P2
Simplified Chinese	"simplified chinese"	China	china	ZHS16CGB231280
Slovak	slovak	Slovakia	slovakia	EE8ISO8859P2
Spanish	spanish	Spain	spain	WE8DEC
Swedish	swedish	Sweden	sweden	WE8DEC
Thai	th	Thailand	th	TH8TISASCII
Traditional Chinese	"traditional chinese"	Taiwan	taiwan	ZHT32EUC
Turkish	turkish	Turkey	turkey	WE8ISO8859P9