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"Dirk Kiehne" <dirk_at_liberate.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I've been assigned the responsibility of setting up
> four different systems, each with their own database,
> in four Asian languages (Sim. Chinese, Trad. Chinese,
> Korean and Japanese).
>
> The Solaris install went fine in each of the languages
> and I've installed Oracle 8.1.7. I just need a little
> guidance on creating the databases and the specific
> environment variables I should use?
>
> I'd appreciate any input or a pointer to the doc with
> the info that I need.
>
> -Dirk
The Oracle Server Administrators Manual used to have an NLS appendix. As Oracle docs now have a master index it shouldn't be too difficult to find NLS_CHARSET or 'national characterset' in it. You probably will want to read up on using UTF8, a double byte characterset, which encompasses all Asian charactersets, and it's consequences.
Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 13:32:45 CDT