Re: Database SID name in Japanese

From: Carlo Sirna <carlo.sirna_at_digisoft.it>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:52:23 +0100
Message-ID: <a6aj7b$d3i91$1@ID-135096.news.dfncis.de>

SID is used to identify uniquely a database instance on a server across the net.
Oracle databases are meant to allow connections from any part of the world.
Allowing japanese chars in network identifiers would make non-japanese clients impossible to be configured.

Moreover: end users are NOT required to know the database SID.

> I am working on an internationalization project and I want to create
a
> Oracle 8i database with a Japanese name. The Oracle8i database
server is
> installed on a Japanese NT machine. However on creating a database
with name
> as ,ã,ä (I don't know if this will appear properly in my posted
message but
> the unicode values of this string are 3085 and 3086), I get an
error-i.e.
> invalid database name.
> I wonder why it doesn't take Japanese database names for server
installed on
> a Japanese Operating System. will I have to give a English name on
Japanese
> OS too? Any comments?
>
> Regards,
> Siddharth.
>
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 08 2002 - 08:52:23 CST