Re: Installing an app on a French configured server

You can do it at anytime if the character set you are changing to is a supset of the current set. If it is not, you will have to export and import you database for the changes to take place.

HTH,
Ruth
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> Stephane
>
> How do we make the character set French?(WE8ISO8859P15) on our test
> database?
> (Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition running on AIX 4.3.3?).
>
> Is this something that has to be done when installing Oracle, or when
> creating the database(SID)? If so, how do we specify that we want this
> character set?
>
> Or can we change an existing installation or database?
>
> Any assistance appreciated
>
> John Dunn
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephane Faroult [SMTP:sfaroult_at_oriole.com]
> > Sent: 16 May 2002 21:24
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: Installing an app on a French configured server
> >
> > Barry Deevey wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > There is a requirement to install our application at a site that will
> > have
> > > both Oracle (8.1.7) & Unix (AIX 5.1) configured in the French
language.
> > >
> > > Can anybody please advise me of anything that I need to be aware of in
> > > relation to the differences between an English & French
configuration??
> > >
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Barry.
> >
> > o Character sets (likely to be WE8ISO8859P15 in France - accents plus
> > euro character)
> > o Beware of tests on dates, especially if the day matters
> > o Subtle but annoying, numbers. The default decimal character is a comma
> > in France, and you sometimes (although rarely) meet a dot as separator
> > for thousands. Can be a big problem when loading data from external
> > sources - or generating files to be loaded say into Excel.
> >
> > And Oracle error messages in French are totally ununderstandable, even
> > to the French.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Stephane Faroult
> > Oriole Software
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