| Oracle® Database Globalization Support Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10749-02 |
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| Oracle® Database Globalization Support Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10749-02 |
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This appendix lists the languages, territories, character sets, and other locale data supported by the Oracle server. It includes these topics:
You can obtain information about character sets, languages, territories, and sorting orders by querying the V$NLS_VALID_VALUES dynamic performance view.
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See Also: Oracle Database Reference for more information about the data that can be returned by this view |
Languages in Table A-1 provide support for locale-sensitive information such as the following:
Day and month names and their abbreviations
Symbols for equivalent expressions for A.M., P.M., A.D., and B.C.
Default sorting sequence for character data when the ORDER BY SQL clause is specified
Writing direction (left to right or right to left)
Affirmative and negative response strings (for example, YES and NO)
By using Unicode databases and datatypes, you can store, process, and retrieve data for almost all contemporary languages, including many that do not appear in Table A-1.
Table A-1 Oracle Supported Languages
Oracle error messages have been translated into the languages which are listed in Table A-2.
Table A-2 Oracle Supported Messages
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| ARABIC | ar |
| BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE | ptb |
| CATALAN | ca |
| CZECH | cs |
| DANISH | dk |
| DUTCH | nl |
| FINNISH | sf |
| FRENCH | f |
| GERMAN | d |
| GREEK | el |
| HEBREW | iw |
| HUNGARIAN | hu |
| ITALIAN | i |
| JAPANESE | ja |
| KOREAN | ko |
| NORWEGIAN | n |
| POLISH | pl |
| PORTUGUESE | pt |
| ROMANIAN | ro |
| RUSSIAN | ru |
| SIMPLIFIED CHINESE | zhs |
| SLOVAK | sk |
| SPANISH | e |
| SWEDISH | s |
| THAI | th |
| TRADITIONAL CHINESE | zht |
| TURKISH | tr |
Table A-3 lists the territories supported by the Oracle server.
Table A-3 Oracle Supported Territories
| Name | Name | Name |
|---|---|---|
| ALGERIA | HONG KONG | PERU |
| - | - | PHILIPPINES |
| AMERICA | HUNGARY | POLAND |
| AUSTRALIA | ICELAND | PORTUGAL |
| AUSTRIA | INDIA | PUERTO RICO |
| BAHRAIN | INDONESIA | QATAR |
| BANGLADESH | IRAQ | ROMANIA |
| - | - | RUSSIA |
| BELGIUM | IRELAND | SAUDI ARABIA |
| - | - | SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO |
| BRAZIL | ISRAEL | SINGAPORE |
| BULGARIA | ITALY | SLOVAKIA |
| CANADA | JAPAN | SLOVENIA |
| CATALONIA | JORDAN | SOMALIA |
| CHILE | KAZAKHSTAN | SOUTH AFRICA |
| CHINA | KOREA | SPAIN |
| ARGENTINA | - | - |
| AZERBAIJAN | KUWAIT | SUDAN |
| COLOMBIA | LATVIA | SWEDEN |
| COSTA RICA | LEBANON | SWITZERLAND |
| CROATIA | LIBYA | SYRIA |
| CYPRUS | LITHUANIA | TAIWAN |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | LUXEMBOURG | THAILAND |
| DENMARK | - | THE NETHERLANDS |
| DJIBOUTI | MALAYSIA | TUNISIA |
| ECUADOR | - | - |
| EGYPT | MAURITANIA | TURKEY |
| EL SALVADOR | MEXICO | UKRAINE |
| ESTONIA | MOROCCO | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
| FINLAND | NEW ZEALAND | UNITED KINGDOM |
| FRANCE | NICARAGUA | UZBEKISTAN |
| FYR MACEDONIA | - | VENEZUELA |
| GUATEMALA | NORWAY | VIETNAM |
| GERMANY | OMAN | YEMEN |
| GREECE | PANAMA | - |
Oracle-supported character sets are listed in the following sections according to three broad language groups.
In addition, common subset/superset combinations are listed.
Note that some character sets may be listed under multiple language groups because they provide multilingual support. For instance, Unicode spans the Asian, European, and Middle Eastern language groups because it supports most of the major scripts of the world.
The comment section indicates the type of encoding used:
As mentioned in Chapter 3, "Setting Up a Globalization Support Environment", the type of encoding affects performance, so use the most efficient encoding that meets your language needs. Also, some encoding types can only be used with certain data types. For instance, the AL16UTF16 character set can only be used as an NCHAR character set, and not as a database character set.
Also documented in the comment section are other unique features of the character set that may be important to users or your database administrator. For example, the information includes whether the character set supports the euro currency symbol, whether user-defined characters are supported, and whether the character set is a strict superset of ASCII. (You can use the ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET statement to migrate from the US7ASCII character set to a character set that is a strict superset of ASCII.)
The following is the key for the comment column of the character set tables:
Oracle does not document individual code page layouts. For specific details about a particular character set, its character repertoire, and code point values, you can use Oracle Locale Builder may be used. Otherwise, you should refer to the actual national, international, or vendor-specific standards.
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See Also: Chapter 13, "Customizing Locale" |
Table A-4 lists the Oracle character sets that can support Asian languages. The list is alphabetical by description.
Table A-4 Asian Language Character Sets
| Name | Description | Comments |
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| BN8BSCII | Bangladesh National Code 8-bit BSCII | SB, ASCII |
| ZHT16BIG5 | BIG5 16-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| ZHS16CGB231280 | CGB2312-80 16-bit Simplified Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| JA16EUC | EUC 24-bit Japanese | MB, ASCII |
| JA16EUCTILDE | The same as JA16EUC except for the way that the wave dash and the tilde are mapped to and from Unicode. | MB, ASCII |
| JA16EUCYEN | EUC 24-bit Japanese with '\' mapped to the Japanese yen character | MB |
| ZHT32EUC | EUC 32-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| ZHS16GBK | GBK 16-bit Simplified Chinese | MB, ASCII, UDC |
| ZHS32GB18030 | GB18030-2000 | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| ZHT16CCDC | HP CCDC 16-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| JA16DBCS | IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Japanese | MB, UDC |
| JA16EBCDIC930 | IBM DBCS Code Page 290 16-bit Japanese | MB, UDC |
| KO16DBCS | IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Korean | MB, UDC |
| ZHS16DBCS | IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Simplified Chinese | MB, UDC |
| ZHT16DBCS | IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, UDC |
| JA16VMS | JVMS 16-bit Japanese | MB, ASCII |
| KO16KSC5601 | KSC5601 16-bit Korean | MB, ASCII |
| KO16KSCCS | KSCCS 16-bit Korean | MB, ASCII |
| ZHS16MACCGB231280 | Mac client CGB2312-80 16-bit Simplified Chinese | MB |
| JA16MACSJIS | Mac client Shift-JIS 16-bit Japanese | MB |
| TH8MACTHAI | Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Thai | SB |
| TH8MACTHAIS | Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Thai | SB, ASCII |
| TH8TISEBCDICS | Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533-EBCDIC Server 8-bit | SB |
| KO16MSWIN949 | MS Windows Code Page 949 Korean | MB, ASCII, UDC |
| ZHT16HKSCS | MS Windows Code Page 950 with Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set HKSCS-2001 (character set conversion to and from Unicode is based on Unicode 3.0) | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| ZHT16MSWIN950 | MS Windows Code Page 950 Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII, UDC |
| VN8MSWIN1258 | MS Windows Code Page 1258 8-bit Vietnamese | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| IN8ISCII | Multiple-Script Indian Standard 8-bit Latin/Indian Languages | SB, ASCII |
| JA16SJIS | Shift-JIS 16-bit Japanese | MB, ASCII, UDC |
| JA16SJISTILDE | The same as JA16SJIS except for the way that the wave dash and the tilde are mapped to and from Unicode. | MB, ASCII, UDC |
| JA16SJISYEN | Shift-JIS 16-bit Japanese with '\' mapped to the Japanese yen character | MB, UDC |
| ZHT32SOPS | SOPS 32-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| ZHT16DBT | Taiwan Taxation 16-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| TH8TISASCII | Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 - ASCII 8-bit | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| TH8TISEBCDIC | Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 - EBCDIC 8-bit | SB |
| ZHT32TRIS | TRIS 32-bit Traditional Chinese | MB, ASCII |
| AL16UTF16 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, EURO, FIXED |
| AL32UTF8 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTF8 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTFE | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, EURO |
| VN8VN3 | VN3 8-bit Vietnamese | SB, ASCII |
Table A-5 lists the Oracle character sets that can support European languages. The list is alphabetical by description.
Table A-5 European Language Character Sets
| Name | Description | Comments |
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| US7ASCII | ASCII 7-bit American | SB, ASCII |
| SF7ASCII | ASCII 7-bit Finnish | SB |
| YUG7ASCII | ASCII 7-bit Yugoslavian | SB |
| RU8BESTA | BESTA 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| EL8GCOS7 | Bull EBCDIC GCOS7 8-bit Greek | SB |
| WE8GCOS7 | Bull EBCDIC GCOS7 8-bit West European | SB |
| EL8DEC | DEC 8-bit Latin/Greek | SB |
| TR7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Turkish | SB |
| TR8DEC | DEC 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII |
| WE8DEC | DEC 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII |
| D7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit German | SB |
| F7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit French | SB |
| S7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Swedish | SB |
| E7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Spanish | SB |
| NDK7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Norwegian/Danish | SB |
| I7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Italian | SB |
| NL7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Dutch | SB |
| CH7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Swiss (German/French) | SB |
| SF7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Finnish | SB |
| WE8DG | DG 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII |
| WE8EBCDIC37C | EBCDIC Code Page 37 8-bit Oracle/c | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC37 | EBCDIC Code Page 37 8-bit West European | SB |
| D8EBCDIC273 | EBCDIC Code Page 273/1 8-bit Austrian German | SB |
| DK8EBCDIC277 | EBCDIC Code Page 277/1 8-bit Danish | SB |
| S8EBCDIC278 | EBCDIC Code Page 278/1 8-bit Swedish | SB |
| I8EBCDIC280 | EBCDIC Code Page 280/1 8-bit Italian | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC284 | EBCDIC Code Page 284 8-bit Latin American/Spanish | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC285 | EBCDIC Code Page 285 8-bit West European | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC1047 | EBCDIC Code Page 1047 8-bit West European | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC1140 | EBCDIC Code Page 1140 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| WE8EBCDIC1140C | EBCDIC Code Page 1140 Client 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| WE8EBCDIC1145 | EBCDIC Code Page 1145 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| WE8EBCDIC1146 | EBCDIC Code Page 1146 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| WE8EBCDIC1148 | EBCDIC Code Page 1148 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| WE8EBCDIC1148C | EBCDIC Code Page 1148 Client 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| F8EBCDIC297 | EBCDIC Code Page 297 8-bit French | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC500C | EBCDIC Code Page 500 8-bit Oracle/c | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC500 | EBCDIC Code Page 500 8-bit West European | SB |
| EE8EBCDIC870 | EBCDIC Code Page 870 8-bit East European | SB |
| EE8EBCDIC870C | EBCDIC Code Page 870 Client 8-bit East European | SB |
| EE8EBCDIC870S | EBCDIC Code Page 870 Server 8-bit East European | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC871 | EBCDIC Code Page 871 8-bit Icelandic | SB |
| EL8EBCDIC875 | EBCDIC Code Page 875 8-bit Greek | SB |
| EL8EBCDIC875R | EBCDIC Code Page 875 Server 8-bit Greek | SB |
| CL8EBCDIC1025 | EBCDIC Code Page 1025 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| CL8EBCDIC1025C | EBCDIC Code Page 1025 Client 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| CL8EBCDIC1025R | EBCDIC Code Page 1025 Server 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| CL8EBCDIC1025S | EBCDIC Code Page 1025 Server 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| CL8EBCDIC1025X | EBCDIC Code Page 1025 (Modified) 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| TR8EBCDIC1026 | EBCDIC Code Page 1026 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| TR8EBCDIC1026S | EBCDIC Code Page 1026 Server 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| BLT8EBCDIC1112 | EBCDIC Code Page 1112 8-bit Baltic Multilingual | SB |
| BLT8EBCDIC1112S | EBCDIC Code Page 1112 8-bit Server Baltic Multilingual | SB |
| D8EBCDIC1141 | EBCDIC Code Page 1141 8-bit Austrian German | SB, EURO |
| DK8EBCDIC1142 | EBCDIC Code Page 1142 8-bit Danish | SB, EURO |
| S8EBCDIC1143 | EBCDIC Code Page 1143 8-bit Swedish | SB, EURO |
| I8EBCDIC1144 | EBCDIC Code Page 1144 8-bit Italian | SB, EURO |
| F8EBCDIC1147 | EBCDIC Code Page 1147 8-bit French | SB, EURO |
| CL8EBCDIC1158 | EBCDIC Code Page 1158 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| CL8EBCDIC1158R | EBCDIC Code Page 1158 Server 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| EEC8EUROASCI | EEC Targon 35 ASCI West European/Greek | SB |
| EEC8EUROPA3 | EEC EUROPA3 8-bit West European/Greek | SB |
| LA8PASSPORT | German Government Printer 8-bit All-European Latin | SB, ASCII |
| WE8HP | HP LaserJet 8-bit West European | SB |
| WE8ROMAN8 | HP Roman8 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII |
| HU8CWI2 | Hungarian 8-bit CWI-2 | SB, ASCII |
| HU8ABMOD | Hungarian 8-bit Special AB Mod | SB, ASCII |
| EL8EBCDIC423R | IBM EBCDIC Code Page 423 for RDBMS server-side | SB |
| LV8RST104090 | IBM-PC Alternative Code Page 8-bit Latvian (Latin/Cyrillic) | SB, ASCII |
| US8PC437 | IBM-PC Code Page 437 8-bit American | SB, ASCII |
| BG8PC437S | IBM-PC Code Page 437 8-bit (Bulgarian Modification) | SB, ASCII |
| EL8PC437S | IBM-PC Code Page 437 8-bit (Greek modification) | SB, ASCII |
| EL8PC737 | IBM-PC Code Page 737 8-bit Greek/Latin | SB |
| LT8PC772 | IBM-PC Code Page 772 8-bit Lithuanian (Latin/Cyrillic) | SB, ASCII |
| LT8PC774 | IBM-PC Code Page 774 8-bit Lithuanian (Latin) | SB, ASCII |
| BLT8PC775 | IBM-PC Code Page 775 8-bit Baltic | SB, ASCII |
| WE8PC850 | IBM-PC Code Page 850 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII |
| EL8PC851 | IBM-PC Code Page 851 8-bit Greek/Latin | SB, ASCII |
| EE8PC852 | IBM-PC Code Page 852 8-bit East European | SB, ASCII |
| RU8PC855 | IBM-PC Code Page 855 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| TR8PC857 | IBM-PC Code Page 857 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII |
| WE8PC858 | IBM-PC Code Page 858 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| WE8PC860 | IBM-PC Code Page 860 8-bit West European | SB. ASCII |
| IS8PC861 | IBM-PC Code Page 861 8-bit Icelandic | SB, ASCII |
| CDN8PC863 | IBM-PC Code Page 863 8-bit Canadian French | SB, ASCII |
| N8PC865 | IBM-PC Code Page 865 8-bit Norwegian | SB. ASCII |
| RU8PC866 | IBM-PC Code Page 866 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| EL8PC869 | IBM-PC Code Page 869 8-bit Greek/Latin | SB, ASCII |
| LV8PC1117 | IBM-PC Code Page 1117 8-bit Latvian | SB, ASCII |
| US8ICL | ICL EBCDIC 8-bit American | SB |
| WE8ICL | ICL EBCDIC 8-bit West European | SB |
| WE8ISOICLUK | ICL special version ISO8859-1 | SB |
| WE8ISO8859P1 | ISO 8859-1 West European | SB, ASCII |
| EE8ISO8859P2 | ISO 8859-2 East European | SB, ASCII |
| SE8ISO8859P3 | ISO 8859-3 South European | SB, ASCII |
| NEE8ISO8859P4 | ISO 8859-4 North and North-East European | SB, ASCII |
| CL8ISO8859P5 | ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ISO8859P6 | ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| EL8ISO8859P7 | ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| IW8ISO8859P8 | ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew | SB, ASCII |
| NE8ISO8859P10 | ISO 8859-10 North European | SB, ASCII |
| BLT8ISO8859P13 | ISO 8859-13 Baltic | SB, ASCII |
| CEL8ISO8859P14 | ISO 8859-13 Celtic | SB, ASCII |
| WE8ISO8859P15 | ISO 8859-15 West European | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| LA8ISO6937 | ISO 6937 8-bit Coded Character Set for Text Communication | SB, ASCII |
| CL8ISOIR111 | ISOIR111 Cyrillic | SB |
| IW7IS960 | Israeli Standard 960 7-bit Latin/Hebrew | SB |
| CL8KOI8U | KOI8 Ukrainian Cyrillic | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC1047E | Latin 1/Open Systems 1047 | SB, EBCDIC, EURO |
| WE8EBCDIC924 | Latin 9 EBCDIC 924 | SB, EBCDIC |
| BLT8CP921 | Latvian Standard LVS8-92(1) Windows/Unix 8-bit Baltic | SB, ASCII |
| LV8PC8LR | Latvian Version IBM-PC Code Page 866 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ARABICMAC | Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| EE8MACCE | Mac Client 8-bit Central European | SB |
| EE8MACCROATIAN | Mac Client 8-bit Croatian | SB |
| WE8MACROMAN8 | Mac Client 8-bit Extended Roman8 West European | SB |
| EL8MACGREEK | Mac Client 8-bit Greek | SB |
| IS8MACICELANDIC | Mac Client 8-bit Icelandic | SB |
| CL8MACCYRILLIC | Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB |
| TR8MACTURKISH | Mac Client 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| TR8MACTURKISHS | Mac Server 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ARABICMACS | Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| EE8MACCES | Mac Server 8-bit Central European | SB, ASCII |
| EE8MACCROATIANS | Mac Server 8-bit Croatian | SB, ASCII |
| WE8MACROMAN8S | Mac Server 8-bit Extended Roman8 West European | SB, ASCII |
| CL8MACCYRILLICS | Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| EL8MACGREEKS | Mac Server 8-bit Greek | SB, ASCII |
| IS8MACICELANDICS | Mac Server 8-bit Icelandic | SB |
| BG8MSWIN | MS Windows 8-bit Bulgarian Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| LT8MSWIN921 | MS Windows Code Page 921 8-bit Lithuanian | SB, ASCII |
| ET8MSWIN923 | MS Windows Code Page 923 8-bit Estonian | SB, ASCII |
| EE8MSWIN1250 | MS Windows Code Page 1250 8-bit East European | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| CL8MSWIN1251 | MS Windows Code Page 1251 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| WE8MSWIN1252 | MS Windows Code Page 1252 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| EL8MSWIN1253 | MS Windows Code Page 1253 8-bit Latin/Greek | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| TR8MSWIN1254 | MS Windows Code Page 1254 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| BLT8MSWIN1257 | MS Windows Code Page 1257 8-bit Baltic | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| WE8NCR4970 | NCR 4970 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII |
| WE8NEXTSTEP | NeXTSTEP PostScript 8-bit West European | SB, ASCII |
| CL8KOI8R | RELCOM Internet Standard 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic | SB, ASCII |
| US8BS2000 | Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit American | SB |
| DK8BS2000 | Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit Danish | SB |
| F8BS2000 | Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit French | SB |
| D8BS2000 | Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit German | SB |
| E8BS2000 | Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit Spanish | SB |
| S8BS2000 | Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit Swedish | SB |
| DK7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Danish | SB |
| F7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit French | SB |
| D7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit German | SB |
| I7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Italian | SB |
| N7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Norwegian | SB |
| E7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Spanish | SB |
| S7SIEMENS9780X | Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Swedish | SB |
| EE8BS2000 | Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit East European | SB |
| WE8BS2000 | Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit West European | SB |
| WE8BS2000E | Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit West European | SB, EURO |
| CL8BS2000 | Siemens EBCDIC.EHC.LC 8-bit Cyrillic | SB |
| WE8BS2000L5 | Siemens EBCDIC.DF.L5 8-bit West European/Turkish | SB |
| CE8BS2000 | Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit Celtic | SB |
| AL16UTF16 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, EURO, FIXED |
| AL32UTF8 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTF8 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTFE | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, EURO |
Table A-6 lists the Oracle character sets that can support Middle Eastern languages. The list is alphabetical by description.
Table A-6 Middle Eastern Character Sets
| Name | Description | Comments |
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| AR8APTEC715 | APTEC 715 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8APTEC715T | APTEC 715 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8ASMO708PLUS | ASMO 708 Plus 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ASMO8X | ASMO Extended 708 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ADOS710 | Arabic MS-DOS 710 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ADOS710T | Arabic MS-DOS 710 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8ADOS720 | Arabic MS-DOS 720 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ADOS720T | Arabic MS-DOS 720 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| TR7DEC | DEC VT100 7-bit Turkish | SB |
| TR8DEC | DEC 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC37C | EBCDIC Code Page 37 8-bit Oracle/c | SB |
| IW8EBCDIC424 | EBCDIC Code Page 424 8-bit Latin/Hebrew | SB |
| IW8EBCDIC424S | EBCDIC Code Page 424 Server 8-bit Latin/Hebrew | SB |
| WE8EBCDIC500C | EBCDIC Code Page 500 8-bit Oracle/c | SB |
| IW8EBCDIC1086 | EBCDIC Code Page 1086 8-bit Hebrew | SB |
| AR8EBCDIC420S | EBCDIC Code Page 420 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8EBCDICX | EBCDIC XBASIC Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| TR8EBCDIC1026 | EBCDIC Code Page 1026 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| TR8EBCDIC1026S | EBCDIC Code Page 1026 Server 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| AR8HPARABIC8T | HP 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| TR8PC857 | IBM-PC Code Page 857 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII |
| IW8PC1507 | IBM-PC Code Page 1507/862 8-bit Latin/Hebrew | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ISO8859P6 | ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| IW8ISO8859P8 | ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew | SB, ASCII |
| AZ8ISO8859PE | ISO 8859-9 Latin Azerbaijani | SB, ASCII |
| WE8ISO8859P9 | ISO 8859-9 West European & Turkish | SB, ASCII |
| LA8ISO6937 | ISO 6937 8-bit Coded Character Set for Text Communication | SB, ASCII |
| IW7IS960 | Israeli Standard 960 7-bit Latin/Hebrew | SB |
| IW8MACHEBREW | Mac Client 8-bit Hebrew | SB |
| AR8ARABICMAC | Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8ARABICMACT | Mac 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| TR8MACTURKISH | Mac Client 8-bit Turkish | SB |
| IW8MACHEBREWS | Mac Server 8-bit Hebrew | SB, ASCII |
| AR8ARABICMACS | Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| TR8MACTURKISHS | Mac Server 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII |
| TR8MSWIN1254 | MS Windows Code Page 1254 8-bit Turkish | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| IW8MSWIN1255 | MS Windows Code Page 1255 8-bit Latin/Hebrew | SB, ASCII, EURO |
| AR8MSWIN1256 | MS Windows Code Page 1256 8-Bit Latin/Arabic | SB. ASCII, EURO |
| IN8ISCII | Multiple-Script Indian Standard 8-bit Latin/Indian Languages | SB |
| AR8MUSSAD768 | Mussa'd Alarabi/2 768 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8MUSSAD768T | Mussa'd Alarabi/2 768 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8NAFITHA711 | Nafitha Enhanced 711 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8NAFITHA711T | Nafitha Enhanced 711 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8NAFITHA721 | Nafitha International 721 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8NAFITHA721T | Nafitha International 721 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8SAKHR706 | SAKHR 706 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8SAKHR707 | SAKHR 707 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB, ASCII |
| AR8SAKHR707T | SAKHR 707 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| AR8XBASIC | XBASIC 8-bit Latin/Arabic | SB |
| WE8BS2000L5 | Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04.L5 8-bit West European/Turkish | SB |
| AL16UTF16 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, EURO, FIXED |
| AL32UTF8 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTF8 | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTFE | See "Universal Character Sets" for details | MB, EURO |
Table A-7 lists the Oracle character sets that provide universal language support. They attempt to support all languages of the world, including, but not limited to, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern languages.
Table A-7 Universal Character Sets
| Name | Description | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AL16UTF16 | Unicode 3.2 UTF-16 Universal character set | MB, EURO, FIXED |
| AL32UTF8 | Unicode 3.2 UTF-8 Universal character set | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTF8 | Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set, CESU-8 compliant | MB, ASCII, EURO |
| UTFE | EBCDIC form of Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set (UTF-EBCDIC) | MB, EURO |
The following character set encodings are supported for conversion only. They cannot be used as the database or national character set:
You can use these character sets as the source_char_set or dest_char_set in the CONVERT function.
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See Also:
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Table A-8 lists common subset/superset relationships.
Table A-8 Subset-Superset Pairs
| Subset | Superset |
|---|---|
| AR8ADOS710 | AR8ADOS710T |
| AR8ADOS720 | AR8ADOS720T |
| AR8ADOS720T | AR8ADOS720 |
| AR8APTEC715 | AR8APTEC715T |
| AR8ARABICMACT | AR8ARABICMAC |
| AR8ISO8859P6 | AR8ASMO708PLUS |
| AR8ISO8859P6 | AR8ASMO8X |
| AR8MUSSAD768 | AR8MUSSAD768T |
| AR8MUSSAD768T | AR8MUSSAD768 |
| AR8NAFITHA711 | AR8NAFITHA711T |
| AR8NAFITHA721 | AR8NAFITHA721T |
| AR8SAKHR707 | AR8SAKHR707T |
| AR8SAKHR707T | AR8SAKHR707 |
| BLT8CP921 | BLT8ISO8859P13 |
| BLT8CP921 | LT8MSWIN921 |
| D7DEC | D7SIEMENS9780X |
| D7SIEMENS9780X | D7DEC |
| DK7SIEMENS9780X | N7SIEMENS9780X |
| I7DEC | I7SIEMENS9780X |
| I7SIEMENS9780X | IW8EBCDIC424 |
| IW8EBCDIC424 | IW8EBCDIC1086 |
| KO16KSC5601 | KO16MSWIN949 |
| LT8MSWIN921 | BLT8ISO8859P13 |
| LT8MSWIN921 | BLT8CP921 |
| N7SIEMENS9780X | DK7SIEMENS9780X |
| US7ASCII | See Table A-9, "US7ASCII Supersets". |
| UTF8 | AL32UTF8 |
| WE8DEC | TR8DEC |
| WE8DEC | WE8NCR4970 |
| WE8ISO8859P1 | WE8MSWIN1252 |
| WE8ISO8859P9 | TR8MSWIN1254 |
| WE8NCR4970 | TR8DEC |
| WE8NCR4970 | WE8DEC |
| WE8PC850 | WE8PC858 |
US7ASCII is a special case because so many other character sets are supersets of it. Table A-9 lists supersets for US7ASCII.
Table A-9 US7ASCII Supersets
| Supersets | Supersets | Supersets |
|---|---|---|
| - | EE8MACCES | NEE8ISO8859P4 |
| AL32UTF8 | EE8MACCROATIANS | RU8BESTA |
| AR8ADOS710 | EE8MSWIN1250 | RU8PC855 |
| AR8ADOS710T | EE8PC852 | RU8PC866 |
| AR8ADOS720 | EL8DEC | SE8ISO8859P3 |
| AR8ADOS720T | EL8ISO8859P7 | TH8MACTHAIS |
| AR8APTEC715 | EL8MACGREEKS | TH8TISASCII |
| AR8APTEC715T | EL8MSWIN1253 | TR8DEC |
| AR8ARABICMACS | EL8PC437S | TR8MACTURKISHS |
| AR8ASMO708PLUS | EL8PC851 | TR8MSWIN1254 |
| AR8ASMO8X | EL8PC869 | TR8PC857 |
| AR8HPARABIC8T | ET8MSWIN923 | US8PC437 |
| AR8ISO8859P6 | HU8ABMOD | UTF8 |
| AR8MSWIN1256 | HU8CWI2 | VN8MSWIN1258 |
| AR8MUSSAD768 | IN8ISCII | VN8VN3 |
| AR8MUSSAD768T | IS8PC861 | WE8DEC |
| AR8NAFITHA711 | IW8ISO8859P8 | WE8DG |
| AR8NAFITHA711T | IW8MACHEBREWS | WE8ISO8859P1 |
| AR8NAFITHA721 | IW8MSWIN1255 | WE8ISO8859P15 |
| AR8NAFITHA721T | IW8PC1507 | WE8ISO8859P9 |
| AR8SAKHR706 | JA16EUC | WE8MACROMAN8S |
| AR8SAKHR707 | JA16SJIS | WE8MSWIN1252 |
| AR8SAKHR707T | - | WE8NCR4970 |
| AZ8ISO8859PE | - | - |
| BG8MSWIN | - | WE8NEXTSTEP |
| BG8PC437S | JA16VMS | WE8PC850 |
| BLT8CP921 | KO16KSC5601 | WE8PC858 |
| BLT8ISO8859P13 | KO16KSCCS | WE8PC860 |
| BLT8MSWIN1257 | KO16MSWIN949 | WE8ROMAN8 |
| BLT8PC775 | - | ZHS16CGB231280 |
| BN8BSCII | LA8ISO6937 | ZHS16GBK |
| CDN8PC863 | LA8PASSPORT | ZHT16BIG5 |
| CEL8ISO8859P14 | LT8MSWIN921 | ZHT16CCDC |
| CL8ISO8859P5 | LT8PC772 | ZHT16DBT |
| CL8KOI8R | LT8PC774 | ZHT16HKSCS |
| CL8KOI8U | LV8PC1117 | ZHT16MSWIN950 |
| CL8ISOIR111 | LV8PC8LR | ZHT32EUC |
| CL8MACCYRILLICS | LV8RST104090 | ZHT32SOPS |
| CL8MSWIN1251 | N8PC865 | ZHT32TRIS |
| EE8ISO8859P2 | NE8ISO8859P10 | ZHS32GB18030 |
Table A-10 displays the languages and character sets that are supported by the language and character set detection in the Character Set Scanner utilities (CSSCAN and LCSSCAN) and the Globalization Development Kit (GDK).
Each language has several character sets that can be detected.
When the binary values for a language match two or more encodings that have a subset/superset relationship, the subset character set is returned. For example, if the language is German and all characters are 7-bit, then US7ASCII is returned instead of WE8MSWIN1252, WE8ISO8859P15, or WE8ISO8859P1.
When the character set is determined to be UTF-8, the Oracle character set UTF8 is returned by default unless 4-byte characters (supplementary characters) are detected within the text. If 4-byte characters are detected, then the character set is reported as AL32UTF8.
Table A-10 Languages and Character Sets Supported by CSSCAN, LCSSCAN, and GDK
| Language | Character Sets |
|---|---|
| Arabic | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, UTF8 |
| Bulgarian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, CL8ISO8859P5, CL8MSWIN1251, UTF8 |
| Catalan | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Croatian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8 |
| Czech | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8 |
| Danish | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Dutch | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| English | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Estonian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, NEE8IOS8859P4, UTF8 |
| Finnish | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| French | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| German | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Greek | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EL8ISO8859P7, EL8MSWIN1253, UTF8 |
| Hebrew | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, IW8ISO8859P8, IW8MSWIN1255, UTF8 |
| Hungarian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8 |
| Italian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Japanese | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, ISO2022-JP, JA16EUC, JA16SJIS, UTF8 |
| Korean | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, ISO2022-KR, KO16KSC5601, KO16MSWIN949, UTF8 |
| Malay | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Norwegian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Polish | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8 |
| Portuguese | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Romanian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8 |
| Russian | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, CL8ISO8859P5, CL8KOI8R, CL8MSWIN1251, UTF8 |
| Simplified Chinese | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, HZ-GB-2312, UTF8, ZHS16GBK, ZHS16CGB231280 |
| Slovak | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8 |
| Spanish | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Swedish | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252 |
| Thai | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, TH8TISASCII, UTF8 |
| Traditional Chinese | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, UTF8, ZHT16MSWIN950 |
| Turkish | AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, TR8MSWIN1254, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P9 |
Oracle offers two kinds of linguistic sorts, monolingual and multilingual. In addition, monolingual sorts can be extended to handle special cases. These special cases (represented with a prefix X) typically mean that the characters are sorted differently from their ASCII values. For example, ch and ll are treated as a single character in XSPANISH.
All of the linguistic sorts can be also be performed as case-insensitive or accent-insensitive by appending _CI or _AI to the linguistic sort name.
Table A-11 lists the monolingual linguistic sorts supported by the Oracle server.
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See Also: Table A-1, "Oracle Supported Languages" for a list of the default sort for each language |
Table A-11 Monolingual Linguistic Sorts
| Basic Name | Extended Name | Special Cases |
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| ARABIC | - | - |
| ARABIC_MATCH | - | - |
| ARABIC_ABJ_SORT | - | - |
| ARABIC_ABJ_MATCH | - | - |
| ASCII7 | - | - |
| AZERBAIJANI | XAZERBAIJANI | i, I, lowercase i without dot, uppercase I with dot |
| BENGALI | - | - |
| BIG5 | - | - |
| BINARY | - | - |
| BULGARIAN | - | - |
| CATALAN | XCATALAN | æ, AE, ß |
| CROATIAN | XCROATIAN | D, L, N, d, l, n, ß |
| CZECH | XCZECH | ch, CH, Ch, ß |
| CZECH_PUNCTUATION | XCZECH_PUNCTUATION | ch, CH, Ch, ß |
| DANISH | XDANISH | A, ß, Å, å |
| DUTCH | XDUTCH | ij, IJ |
| EBCDIC | - | - |
| EEC_EURO | - | - |
| EEC_EUROPA3 | - | - |
| ESTONIAN | - | - |
| FINNISH | - | - |
| FRENCH | XFRENCH | - |
| GERMAN | XGERMAN | ß |
| GERMAN_DIN | XGERMAN_DIN | ß, ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü |
| GBK | - | - |
| GREEK | - | - |
| HEBREW | - | - |
| HKSCS | - | - |
| HUNGARIAN | XHUNGARIAN | cs, gy, ny, sz, ty, zs, ß, CS, Cs, GY, Gy, NY, Ny, SZ, Sz, TY, Ty, ZS, Zs |
| ICELANDIC | - | - |
| INDONESIAN | - | - |
| ITALIAN | - | - |
| LATIN | - | - |
| LATVIAN | - | - |
| LITHUANIAN | - | - |
| MALAY | - | - |
| NORWEGIAN | - | - |
| POLISH | - | - |
| PUNCTUATION | XPUNCTUATION | - |
| ROMANIAN | - | - |
| RUSSIAN | - | - |
| SLOVAK | XSLOVAK | dz, DZ, Dz, ß (caron) |
| SLOVENIAN | XSLOVENIAN | ß |
| SPANISH | XSPANISH | ch, ll, CH, Ch, LL, Ll |
| SWEDISH | - | - |
| SWISS | XSWISS | ß |
| TURKISH | XTURKISH | æ, AE, ß |
| UKRAINIAN | - | - |
| UNICODE_BINARY | - | - |
| VIETNAMESE | - | - |
| WEST_EUROPEAN | XWEST_EUROPEAN | ß |
Table A-12 lists the multilingual linguistic sorts available in Oracle. All of them include GENERIC_M (an ISO standard for sorting Latin-based characters) as a base. Multilingual linguistic sorts are used for a specific primary language together with Latin-based characters. For example, KOREAN_M sorts Korean and Latin-based characters, but it does not collate Chinese, Thai, or Japanese characters.
Table A-12 Multilingual LInguistic Sorts
By default, most territory definitions use the Gregorian calendar system. Table A-11 lists the other calendar systems supported by the Oracle server.
Table A-13 Supported Calendar Systems
| Name | Default Date Format | Character Set Used For Default Date Format |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese Imperial | EEYYMMDD | JA16EUC |
| ROC Official | EEyymmdd | ZHT32EUC |
| Thai Buddha | dd month EE yyyy | TH8TISASCII |
| Persian | DD Month YYYY | AR8ASMO8X |
| Arabic Hijrah | DD Month YYYY | AR8ISO8859P6 |
| English Hijrah | DD Month YYYY | AR8ISO8859P6 |
Figure A-1 shows how March 27, 1998 appears in Japanese Imperial.
Table A-14 shows the time zone names in the default time zone file that is supplied with the Oracle Database. The default time zone file is $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo/timezlrg.dat. Oracle also supplies a smaller time zone file, $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo/timezone/dat. See Chapter 4, "Datetime Datatypes and Time Zone Support" for more information regarding time zone files.
Table A-14 Time Zone Names
| Time Zone Name | Is It in the Smaller Time Zone File? | Time Zone Name | Is It in the Smaller Time Zone File? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa/Algiers | No | Australia/Perth | Yes |
| Africa/Cairo | Yes | Australia/Queensland | Yes |
| Africa/Casablanca | No | Australia/South | Yes |
| Africa/Ceuta | No | Australia/Sydney | Yes |
| Africa/Djibouti | No | Australia/Tasmania | Yes |
| Africa/Freetown | No | Australia/Victoria | Yes |
| Africa/Johannesburg | No | Australia/West | Yes |
| Africa/Khartoum | No | Australia/Yancowinna | Yes |
| Africa/Mogadishu | No | Brazil/Acre | Yes |
| Africa/Nairobi | No | Brazil/DeNoronha | Yes |
| Africa/Nouakchott | No | Brazil/East | Yes |
| Africa/Tripoli | Yes | Brazil/West | Yes |
| Africa/Tunis | No | CET | Yes |
| Africa/Windhoek | No | CST | Yes |
| America/Adak | Yes | CST6CDT | Yes |
| America/Anchorage | Yes | Canada/Atlantic | Yes |
| America/Anguilla | No | Canada/Central | Yes |
| America/Araguaina | No | Canada/East-Saskatchewan | Yes |
| America/Aruba | No | Canada/Eastern | Yes |
| America/Asuncion | No | Canada/Mountain | Yes |
| America/Atka | Yes | Canada/Newfoundland | Yes |
| America/Belem | No | Canada/Pacific | Yes |
| America/Boa_Vista | No | Canada/Saskatchewan | Yes |
| America/Bogota | No | Canada/Yukon | Yes |
| America/Boise | No | Chile/Continental | Yes |
| America/Buenos_Aires | No | Chile/EasterIsland | Yes |
| America/Cambridge_Bay | No | Cuba | Yes |
| America/Cancun | No | EET | Yes |
| America/Caracas | No | EST | Yes |
| America/Cayenne | No | EST5EDT | Yes |
| America/Cayman | No | Egypt | Yes |
| America/Chicago | Yes | Eire | Yes |
| America/Chihuahua | No | Etc/GMT | Yes |
| America/Costa_Rica | No | Etc/GMT+0 | Yes |
| America/Cuiaba | No | Etc/GMT+1 | Yes |
| America/Curacao | No | Etc/GMT+10 | Yes |
| America/Dawson | No | Etc/GMT+11 | Yes |
| America/Dawson_Creek | No | Etc/GMT+12 | Yes |
| America/Denver | Yes | Etc/GMT+2 | Yes |
| America/Detroit | Yes | Etc/GMT+3 | Yes |
| America/Edmonton | Yes | Etc/GMT+4 | Yes |
| America/El_Salvador | No | Etc/GMT+5 | Yes |
| America/Ensenada | Yes | Etc/GMT+6 | Yes |
| America/Fort_Wayne | Yes | Etc/GMT+7 | Yes |
| America/Fortaleza | No | Etc/GMT+8 | Yes |
| America/Godthab | No | Etc/GMT+9 | Yes |
| America/Goose_Bay | No | Etc/GMT-0 | Yes |
| America/Grand_Turk | No | Etc/GMT-1 | Yes |
| America/Guadeloupe | No | Etc/GMT-10 | Yes |
| America/Guatemala | No | Etc/GMT-11 | Yes |
| America/Guayaquil | No | - | - |
| America/Halifax | Yes | Etc/GMT-12 | Yes |
| America/Havana | Yes | Etc/GMT-13 | Yes |
| America/Indiana/Indianapolis | Yes | Etc/GMT-2 | Yes |
| America/Indiana/Knox | No | Etc/GMT-3 | Yes |
| America/Indiana/Marengo | No | Etc/GMT-4 | Yes |
| America/Indiana/Vevay | No | Etc/GMT-5 | Yes |
| America/Indianapolis | Yes | Etc/GMT-6 | Yes |
| America/Inuvik | No | Etc/GMT-7 | Yes |
| America/Iqaluit | No | Etc/GMT-8 | Yes |
| America/Jamaica | Yes | Etc/GMT-9 | Yes |
| America/Juneau | No | Etc/GMT0 | Yes |
| America/Knox_IN | No | Etc/Greenwich | Yes |
| America/La_Paz | No | Europe/Amsterdam | No |
| America/Lima | No | Europe/Athens | No |
| America/Los_Angeles | Yes | Europe/Belfast | No |
| America/Louisville | No | Europe/Belgrade | No |
| America/Maceio | No | Europe/Berlin | No |
| America/Managua | No | Europe/Bratislava | No |
| America/Manaus | Yes | Europe/Brussels | No |
| America/Martinique | No | Europe/Bucharest | No |
| America/Mazatlan | Yes | Europe/Budapest | No |
| America/Mexico_City | Yes | Europe/Copenhagen | No |
| America/Miquelon | No | Europe/Dublin | Yes |
| America/Montevideo | No | Europe/Gibraltar | No |
| America/Montreal | Yes | Europe/Helsinki | No |
| America/Montserrat | No | Europe/Istanbul | Yes |
| America/New_York | Yes | Europe/Kaliningrad | No |
| America/Nome | No | Europe/Kiev | No |
| America/Noronha | Yes | Europe/Lisbon | Yes |
| America/Panama | No | Europe/Ljubljana | No |
| America/Phoenix | Yes | Europe/London | Yes |
| America/Porto_Acre | No | Europe/Luxembourg | No |
| America/Porto_Velho | No | Europe/Madrid | No |
| America/Puerto_Rico | No | Europe/Minsk | No |
| America/Rankin_Inlet | No | Europe/Monaco | No |
| America/Regina | Yes | Europe/Moscow | Yes |
| America/Rio_Branco | Yes | - | - |
| America/Santiago | Yes | Europe/Oslo | No |
| America/Sao_Paulo | Yes | Europe/Paris | No |
| America/Scoresbysund | No | Europe/Prague | No |
| America/Shiprock | Yes | Europe/Riga | No |
| America/St_Johns | Yes | Europe/Rome | No |
| America/St_Thomas | No | Europe/Samara | No |
| America/Swift_Current | No | Europe/San_Marino | No |
| America/Tegucigalpa | No | Europe/Sarajevo | No |
| America/Thule | No | Europe/Simferopol | No |
| America/Thunder_Bay | No | Europe/Skopje | No |
| America/Tijuana | Yes | Europe/Sofia | No |
| America/Tortola | No | Europe/Stockholm | No |
| America/Vancouver | Yes | Europe/Tallinn | No |
| America/Virgin | No | Europe/Tirane | No |
| America/Whitehorse | Yes | Europe/Vatican | No |
| America/Winnipeg | Yes | Europe/Vienna | No |
| America/Yellowknife | No | Europe/Vilnius | No |
| Arctic/Longyearbyen | No | Europe/Warsaw | Yes |
| Asia/Aden | No | Europe/Zagreb | No |
| Asia/Almaty | No | Europe/Zurich | No |
| Asia/Amman | No | GB | Yes |
| Asia/Anadyr | No | GB-Eire | Yes |
| Asia/Aqtau | No | GMT | Yes |
| Asia/Aqtobe | No | GMT+0 | Yes |
| Asia/Baghdad | No | GMT-0 | Yes |
| Asia/Bahrain | No | GMT0 | Yes |
| Asia/Baku | No | Greenwich | Yes |
| Asia/Bangkok | No | HST | Yes |
| Asia/Beirut | No | Hongkong | Yes |
| Asia/Bishkek | No | Iceland | Yes |
| Asia/Calcutta | Yes | Indian/Chagos | No |
| Asia/Chongqing | No | - | - |
| Asia/Chungking | No | Indian/Christmas | No |
| Asia/Dacca | No | Indian/Cocos | No |
| Asia/Damascus | No | Indian/Mayotte | No |
| Asia/Dhaka | No | - | - |
| Asia/Dubai | No | Indian/Reunion | No |
| Asia/Gaza | No | Iran | Yes |
| Asia/Harbin | No | Israel | Yes |
| Asia/Hong_Kong | Yes | Jamaica | Yes |
| Asia/Irkutsk | No | Japan | Yes |
| Asia/Istanbul | Yes | Kwajalein | Yes |
| Asia/Jakarta | No | Libya | Yes |
| Asia/Jayapura | No | MET | Yes |
| Asia/Jerusalem | Yes | MST | Yes |
| Asia/Kabul | No | MST7MDT | Yes |
| Asia/Kamchatka | No | Mexico/BajaNorte | Yes |
| Asia/Karachi | No | Mexico/BajaSur | Yes |
| Asia/Kashgar | No | Mexico/General | Yes |
| Asia/Krasnoyarsk | No | NZ | Yes |
| Asia/Kuala_Lumpur | No | NZ-CHAT | Yes |
| Asia/Kuching | No | Navajo | Yes |
| Asia/Kuwait | No | PRC | Yes |
| Asia/Macao | No | PST | Yes |
| Asia/Macau | No | - | - |
| Asia/Magadan | No | PST8PDT | Yes |
| Asia/Manila | No | Pacific/Auckland | Yes |
| Asia/Muscat | No | Pacific/Chatham | Yes |
| Asia/Nicosia | No | Pacific/Easter | Yes |
| Asia/Novosibirsk | No | Pacific/Fakaofo | No |
| Asia/Omsk | No | Pacific/Fiji | No |
| Asia/Qatar | No | Pacific/Gambier | No |
| Asia/Rangoon | No | Pacific/Guam | No |
| Asia/Riyadh | Yes | Pacific/Honolulu | Yes |
| Asia/Saigon | No | Pacific/Johnston | No |
| Asia/Seoul | Yes | Pacific/Kiritimati | No |
| Asia/Shanghai | Yes | Pacific/Kwajalein | Yes |
| Asia/Singapore | Yes | Pacific/Marquesas | No |
| Asia/Taipei | Yes | Pacific/Midway | No |
| Asia/Tashkent | No | Pacific/Niue | No |
| Asia/Tbilisi | No | Pacific/Norfolk | No |
| Asia/Tehran | Yes | Pacific/Noumea | No |
| Asia/Tel_Aviv | Yes | Pacific/Pago_Pago | Yes |
| Asia/Tokyo | Yes | Pacific/Pitcairn | No |
| Asia/Ujung_Pandang | No | Pacific/Rarotonga | No |
| Asia/Urumqi | No | Pacific/Saipan | No |
| Asia/Vladivostok | No | Pacific/Samoa | Yes |
| Asia/Yakutsk | No | Pacific/Tahiti | No |
| Asia/Yekaterinburg | No | Pacific/Tongatapu | No |
| Asia/Yerevan | No | Pacific/Wake | No |
| Atlantic/Azores | No | Pacific/Wallis | No |
| Atlantic/Bermuda | No | Poland | Yes |
| Atlantic/Canary | No | Portugal | Yes |
| Atlantic/Faeroe | No | ROC | Yes |
| Atlantic/Madeira | No | ROK | Yes |
| Atlantic/Reykjavik | Yes | Singapore | Yes |
| Atlantic/St_Helena | No | Turkey | Yes |
| Atlantic/Stanley | No | US/Alaska | Yes |
| Australia/ACT | Yes | US/Aleutian | Yes |
| Australia/Adelaide | Yes | US/Arizona | Yes |
| Australia/Brisbane | Yes | US/Central | Yes |
| Australia/Broken_Hill | Yes | US/East-Indiana | Yes |
| Australia/Canberra | Yes | US/Eastern | Yes |
| Australia/Darwin | Yes | US/Hawaii | Yes |
| Australia/Hobart | Yes | US/Indiana-Starke | No |
| Australia/LHI | Yes | US/Michigan | Yes |
| Australia/Lindeman | Yes | US/Mountain | Yes |
| Australia/Lord_Howe | Yes | US/Pacific | Yes |
| Australia/Melbourne | Yes | US/Pacific-New | Yes |
| Australia/NSW | Yes | US/Samoa | Yes |
| Australia/North | Yes | UTC | No |
| - | - | W-SU | Yes |
| - | - | WET | Yes |
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See Also: "Choosing a Time Zone File" |
This section contains information about obsolete linguistic sorts, character sets, languages, and territories.
Changes have been made to the content in some of the language and territory definition files in Oracle Database 10g. These updates are necessary to correct the legacy definitions which no longer meet the local conventions in some of the Oracle supported languages and territories. These changes include modifications to the currency symbols, month names, and group separators. One example is the local currency symbol for Brazil. This has been updated from Cr$ to R$ in Oracle Database 10g.
Please refer to the "Oracle Language and Territory definition changes" table documented in the $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/old/data_changes.html file for a detailed list of the changes.
Oracle Database 10g customers should review their existing application code to make sure that the correct cultural conventions that are defined in Oracle Database 10g are being used. For customers who may not be able to make the necessary code changes to support their applications, Oracle offers Oracle9i locale definition files with Oracle Database 10g.
To revert back to the Oracle9i language and territory behavior, perform the following:
Shutdown the database.
Run the script cr9idata.pl from the $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/old directory.
Set the ORA_NLS10 environment variable to the newly created $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/9idata directory.
Restart the database.
Steps 2 and 3 will need to be repeated for all 10g database clients that need to revert back to the Oracle9i definition files.
Oracle Corporation strongly recommends that customers use the Oracle Database 10g locale definition files; Oracle9i locale definition files will be desupported in a future release.
Table A-15 contains linguistic sorts that have been desupported in Oracle Database 10g.
RUSSIA has been added as a territory in Oracle Database 10g. It is the default territory when the language is RUSSIAN. The CIS territory, which was the default territory in previous releases when the language was RUSSIAN, is supported for backward compatibility.
YUGOSLAVIA is a deprecated territory in Oracle Database 10g. Use SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO instead.
Before Oracle release 7.2, when a character set was renamed, the old name was usually supported along with the new name for several releases after the change. Beginning with release 7.2, the old names are no longer supported.
Table A-16 lists the affected character sets. If you reference any of these character sets in your code, then replace them with their new name.
Table A-16 New Names for Obsolete Character Sets
| Old Name | New Name |
|---|---|
| AL24UTFSS | UTF8, AL32UTF8 |
| AR8MSAWIN | AR8MSWIN1256 |
| CL8EBCDIC875S | CL8EBCDIC875R |
| EL8EBCDIC875S | EL8EBCDIC875R |
| JVMS | JA16VMS |
| JEUC | JA16EUC |
| SJIS | JA16SJIS |
| JDBCS | JA16DBCS |
| KSC5601 | KO16KSC5601 |
| KDBCS | KO16DBCS |
| CGB2312-80 | ZHS16CGB231280 |
| CNS 11643-86 | ZHT32EUC |
| JA16EUCFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHS32EUCFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHS16GBKFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| JA16DBCSFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| KO16DBCSFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHS16DBCSFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHS16CGB231280FIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHT16DBCSFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| KO16KSC5601FIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| JA16SJISFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHT16BIG5FIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
| ZHT32TRISFIXED | None. Replaced by new national character set. UTF8 and AL16UTF16. |
Character set CL8MSWINDOW31 has been desupported. The newer character set CL8MSWIN1251 is actually a duplicate of CL8MSWINDOW31 and includes some characters omitted from the earlier version. Change any usage of CL8MSWINDOW31 to CL8MSWIN1251 instead.
The Unicode Character Set AL24UTFFSS was desupported in Oracle9i. AL24UTFFSS was introduced in version 7 as the Unicode character set supporting UTF-8 encoding scheme based on the Unicode standard 1.1, which is now obsolete. In Oracle Database 10g, Oracle offers the Unicode database character set AL32UTF8, which is based on Unicode 3.2, and UTF8, which is based on Unicode 3.0.
The migration path for an existing AL24UTFFSS database is to upgrade to UTF8 prior to upgrading to Oracle9i. As with all migrations to a new database character set, Oracle Corporation recommends that you use the Character Set Scanner for data analysis before attempting to migrate your existing database character set to UTF8.
Oracle's Bengali language definition is not compatible with Unicode standards. Oracle recommends that customers use the Bangla language definition instead. Bangla was introduced in Oracle9i Database Release 1 (9.0.1).
The Bengali language definition is supported in Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1), but it may be desupported in a future release.
Oracle recommends that customers use either Czech Republic or Slovakia territory definitions in Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1). The Czechoslovakia territory definition is supported in Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1), but it may be desupported in a future release.
