Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

What's New in Globalization Support?

1 Overview of Globalization Support

2 Choosing a Character Set

3 Setting Up a Globalization Support Environment

4 Datetime Datatypes and Time Zone Support

5 Linguistic Sorting and String Searching

6 Supporting Multilingual Databases with Unicode

7 Programming with Unicode

8 Oracle Globalization Development Kit

9 SQL and PL/SQL Programming in a Global Environment

10 OCI Programming in a Global Environment

11 Character Set Migration

12 Character Set Scanner Utilities

13 Customizing Locale

A Locale Data

B Unicode Character Code Assignments

Glossary

Index