Re: Internationalization Of Software in Oracle 8.0.5

In article <0a0133f8.0100089d_at_usw-ex0109-069.remarq.com>,   Samir Mehrotra <samirmehrotraNOsaSPAM_at_mailcity.com.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have recently started working on a project to provide
> Multi-Lingual support to the existing software (In English)
> having Oracle at the back end. My aim is to provide support
> initially for the Korean language but the changes should be
> such that it the existing software can be provided in any
> language with no changes(if possible) or minimal changes. I
> have some queries:
>
> 1.0 Is Unicode is the best solution?
>
> 2.0 What are the versions of Unicode, that are supported by
> Oracle ad which one should i opt for?
>
> 3.0 What are the issues that must be taken care of before
> undertaking such an activity? such as Storage parameters,
> their precision etc.(as some character sets store as per
> the number of characters while others store in bytes)
>
> 4.0 What should be the choice of our character set, i.e.,
> The National Character set and the database character set
> (especially in the case of the Korean Language)?
>
> 5.0 What should be done in order to support Multiple
> Languages with minimal or no changes?
>
> 6.0 What is a language pack and up to what an extent is it
> useful? Is it supported by Oracle? If Yes, where i can get
> it from?
>
> 7.0 Does Korean language have any upper or lower cases?
>
> 8.0 Do we require to take care of any fonts that would
> support Double Byte Character Sets(DBCS)? if yes, then
> which
>
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Samir:
Have you found answers for some these questions and you can share with ?

thanks in advance
ted chyn

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