Re: DB design for multilingual applications

Oracle supports:

    ISO 8859-6 Arabic character set
   The Arabic Hijrah calendar
    Arabic writing direction (text written right-to-left, numbers within the sentence are written left-to-right)

/Paul

duh_at_duh.duh wrote in message <87fprr$l6f$19_at_dosa.alt.net>...
>"Faraz" <Faraz_at_btinternet.com>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would appreciate any help/pointers that anyone can give in a relational
 db
>> schema for an application I am building.
>>
>> The problem is that I need to have some way of storing field names and
>> lookup values in multiple languages. This is so that when a user logs in
>> they can set their default language and then after that all the labels on
>> forms and values from lookup tables are displayed in their chosen
 language.
>> I have been given some suggestions but they would cause problems when new
>> languages/translations are added (I don't want to have to change any
 code).
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Faraz
>
>Does ORACLE support Arabic? I doubt it.
Received on Tue Feb 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CET