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Search the oracle documentation (at http://tahiti.oracle.com) for a utility
called "Locale Builder". It's exactly what you want.
Regards
HJR
"Hegyvari Krisztian" <hegyvari_at_ardents.hu> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> The character set my database uses is EE8ISO8859P2. I have problems
> related to sorting, neither binary, nor the Hungarian linguistic
> sorting fits my needs. I thought of defining a custom character set,
> give certain characters different values than in my current set right
> now to reflect the ordering I need and then converting the database to
> use this new set. In my idea, this will change binary sorting. The
> first question: is this the right way to approach this problem?
>
> I have read the Oracle manual and I know that I have to create a *.nlt
> file. Can I somehow reengineer the EE8ISO8859P2 set from its .nlb
> format to a .nlt, modify and rename it and use it as my custom
> charset? I could not find the corresponding .nlt file or a
> reengineering utility.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Hegyvari Krisztian
>
> pls cc any answer to hegyvari_at_ardents.hu as well. Cheers.
Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 14:04:16 CST