A Locale Data

This appendix lists the languages, territories, character sets, and other locale data supported by Oracle Database. This appendix includes these topics:

You can obtain information about character sets, languages, territories, and linguistic sorts by querying the V$NLS_VALID_VALUES dynamic performance view.

See Also:

Oracle Database Reference for more information about the data that can be returned by this view

Languages

Languages in Table A-1 provide support for locale-sensitive information such as:

  • Day and month names and their abbreviations

  • Symbols for equivalent expressions for A.M., P.M., A.D., and B.C.

  • Default sorting sequence for character data when the ORDER BY SQL clause is specified

  • Writing direction (left to right or right to left)

  • Affirmative and negative response strings (for example, YES and NO)

By using Unicode databases and data types, you can store, process, and retrieve data for almost all contemporary languages, including many that do not appear in Table A-1.

Table A-1 Oracle Database Supported Languages

Language Name Language Abbreviation Default Sort

ALBANIAN

sq

GENERIC_M

AMERICAN

us

binary

ARABIC

ar

ARABIC

ASSAMESE

as

binary

AZERBAIJANI

az

AZERBAIJANI

BANGLA

bn

binary

BELARUSIAN

be

RUSSIAN

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

ptb

WEST_EUROPEAN

BULGARIAN

bg

BULGARIAN

CANADIAN FRENCH

frc

CANADIAN FRENCH

CATALAN

ca

CATALAN

CROATIAN

hr

CROATIAN

CYRILLIC KAZAKH

ckk

GENERIC_M

CYRILLIC SERBIAN

csr

GENERIC_M

CYRILLIC UZBEK

cuz

GENERIC_M

CZECH

cs

CZECH

DANISH

dk

DANISH

DUTCH

nl

DUTCH

EGYPTIAN

eg

ARABIC

ENGLISH

gb

binary

ESTONIAN

et

ESTONIAN

FINNISH

sf

FINNISH

FRENCH

f

FRENCH

GERMAN DIN

din

GERMAN

GERMAN

d

GERMAN

GREEK

el

GREEK

GUJARATI

gu

binary

HEBREW

iw

HEBREW

HINDI

hi

binary

HUNGARIAN

hu

HUNGARIAN

ICELANDIC

is

ICELANDIC

INDONESIAN

in

INDONESIAN

IRISH

ga

binary

ITALIAN

i

WEST_EUROPEAN

JAPANESE

ja

binary

KANNADA

kn

binary

KOREAN

ko

binary

LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH

esa

SPANISH

LATIN SERBIAN

lsr

binary

LATIN UZBEK

luz

GENERIC_M

LATVIAN

lv

LATVIAN

LITHUANIAN

lt

LITHUANIAN

MACEDONIAN

mk

binary

MALAY

ms

MALAY

MALAYALAM

ml

binary

MARATHI

mr

binary

MEXICAN SPANISH

esm

WEST_EUROPEAN

NORWEGIAN

n

NORWEGIAN

ORIYA

or

binary

POLISH

pl

POLISH

PORTUGUESE

pt

WEST_EUROPEAN

PUNJABI

pa

binary

ROMANIAN

ro

ROMANIAN

RUSSIAN

ru

RUSSIAN

SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

zhs

binary

SLOVAK

sk

SLOVAK

SLOVENIAN

sl

SLOVENIAN

SPANISH

e

SPANISH

SWEDISH

s

SWEDISH

TAMIL

ta

binary

TELUGU

te

binary

THAI

th

THAI_DICTIONARY

TRADITIONAL CHINESE

zht

binary

TURKISH

tr

TURKISH

UKRAINIAN

uk

UKRAINIAN

VIETNAMESE

vn

VIETNAMESE

Translated Messages

Oracle Database error messages have been translated into the languages which are listed in Table A-2.

Table A-2 Oracle Database Supported Messages

Name Abbreviation

ARABIC

ar

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

ptb

CATALAN

ca

CZECH

cs

DANISH

dk

DUTCH

nl

FINNISH

sf

FRENCH

f

GERMAN

d

GREEK

el

HEBREW

iw

HUNGARIAN

hu

ITALIAN

i

JAPANESE

ja

KOREAN

ko

NORWEGIAN

n

POLISH

pl

PORTUGUESE

pt

ROMANIAN

ro

RUSSIAN

ru

SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

zhs

SLOVAK

sk

SPANISH

e

SWEDISH

s

THAI

th

TRADITIONAL CHINESE

zht

TURKISH

tr

Territories

Table A-3 lists the territories that Oracle Database supports.

Table A-3 Oracle Database Supported Territories

Name Name Name

ALBANIA

GREECE

PUERTO RICO

ALGERIA

HONG KONG

QATAR

AMERICA

HUNGARY

ROMANIA

ARGENTINA

ICELAND

RUSSIA

AUSTRALIA

INDIA

SAUDI ARABIA

AUSTRIA

INDONESIA

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

AZERBAIJAN

IRAQ

SINGAPORE

BAHRAIN

IRELAND

SLOVAKIA

BANGLADESH

ISRAEL

SLOVENIA

BELARUS

ITALY

SOMALIA

BELGIUM

JAPAN

SOUTH AFRICA

BRAZIL

JORDAN

SPAIN

BULGARIA

KAZAKHSTAN

SUDAN

CANADA

KOREA

SWEDEN

CATALONIA

KUWAIT

SWITZERLAND

CHILE

LATVIA

SYRIA

CHINA

LEBANON

TAIWAN

COLOMBIA

LIBYA

THAILAND

COSTA RICA

LITHUANIA

THE NETHERLANDS

CROATIA

LUXEMBOURG

TUNISIA

CYPRUS

MALAYSIA

TURKEY

CZECH REPUBLIC

MAURITANIA

UKRAINE

DENMARK

MEXICO

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

DJIBOUTI

MOROCCO

UNITED KINGDOM

ECUADOR

NEW ZEALAND

UZBEKISTAN

EGYPT

NICARAGUA

VENEZUELA

EL SALVADOR

NORWAY

VIETNAM

ESTONIA

OMAN

YEMEN

FINLAND

PANAMA

-

FRANCE

PERU

-

FYR MACEDONIA

PHILIPPINES

-

GUATEMALA

POLAND

-

GERMANY

PORTUGAL

-

Character Sets

The character sets that Oracle Database supports are listed in the following sections according to three broad categories.

In addition, common character set subset/superset combinations are listed. Some character sets can only be used with certain data types. For example, the AL16UTF16 character set can only be used as an NCHAR character set, and not as a database character set.

Also documented in the comment section are other unique features of the character set that may be important to users or your database administrator. For example, the information includes whether the character set supports the euro currency symbol, whether user-defined characters are supported, and whether the character set is a strict superset of ASCII. (You can use the CSALTER script to migrate an existing database to a new character set, only if all of the schema data is a strict subset of the new character set.)

The key for the comment column of the character set tables is:

SB: single-byte encoding
MB: multibyte encoding
FIXED: fixed-width multibyte encoding
ASCII: strict superset of ASCII
EURO: euro symbol supported
UDC: user-defined characters supported

Oracle Database does not document individual code page layouts. For specific details about a particular character set, its character repertoire, and code point values, you can use Oracle Locale Builder. Otherwise, you should refer to the actual national, international, or vendor-specific standards.

See Also:

Chapter 13, "Customizing Locale Data"

Recommended Database Character Sets

Table A-4 lists the recommended and most commonly used ASCII-based Oracle Database character sets. The list is ordered alphabetically within their respective language group.

Table A-4 Recommended ASCII Database Character Sets


 Name Description Comments

Asian

-

-

-

-

JA16EUC

EUC 24-bit Japanese

MB, ASCII

-

JA16EUCTILDE

The same as JA16EUC except for the way that the wave dash and the tilde are mapped to and from Unicode.

MB, ASCII

-

JA16SJIS

Shift-JIS 16-bit Japanese

MB, ASCII, UDC

-

JA16SJISTILDE

The same as JA16SJIS except for the way that the wave dash and the tilde are mapped to and from Unicode.

MB, ASCII, UDC

-

KO16MSWIN949

MS Windows Code Page 949 Korean

MB, ASCII, UDC

-

TH8TISASCII

Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 - ASCII 8-bit

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

VN8MSWIN1258

MS Windows Code Page 1258 8-bit Vietnamese

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

ZHS16GBK

GBK 16-bit Simplified Chinese

MB, ASCII, UDC

-

ZHT16HKSCS

MS Windows Code Page 950 with Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set HKSCS-2001 (character set conversion to and from Unicode is based on Unicode 3.0)

MB, ASCII, EURO

-

ZHT16MSWIN950

MS Windows Code Page 950 Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII, UDC

-

ZHT32EUC

EUC 32-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII

European

-

-

-

-

BLT8ISO8859P13

ISO 8859-13 Baltic

SB, ASCII

-

BLT8MSWIN1257

MS Windows Code Page 1257 8-bit Baltic

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

CL8ISO8859P5

ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

CL8MSWIN1251

MS Windows Code Page 1251 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

EE8ISO8859P2

ISO 8859-2 East European

SB, ASCII

-

EL8ISO8859P7

ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

EL8MSWIN1253

MS Windows Code Page 1253 8-bit Latin/Greek

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

EE8MSWIN1250

MS Windows Code Page 1250 8-bit East European

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

NE8ISO8859P10

ISO 8859-10 North European

SB, ASCII

-

NEE8ISO8859P4

ISO 8859-4 North and North-East European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8ISO8859P15

ISO 8859-15 West European

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

WE8MSWIN1252

MS Windows Code Page 1252 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII, EURO

Middle Eastern

-

-

-

-

AR8ISO8859P6

ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8MSWIN1256

MS Windows Code Page 1256 8-Bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

IW8ISO8859P8

ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew

SB, ASCII

-

IW8MSWIN1255

MS Windows Code Page 1255 8-bit Latin/Hebrew

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

TR8MSWIN1254

MS Windows Code Page 1254 8-bit Turkish

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

WE8ISO8859P9

ISO 8859-9 West European & Turkish

SB, ASCII

Universal

-

-

-

-

AL32UTF8

Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set

MB, ASCII, EURO

Table A-5 lists the recommended and most commonly used EBCDIC-based Oracle Database character sets. The list is ordered alphabetically within their respective language group.

Table A-5 Recommended EBCDIC Database Character Sets


 Name Description Comments

Asian

-

-

-

-

JA16DBCS

IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Japanese

MB, UDC

-

JA16EBCDIC930

IBM DBCS Code Page 290 16-bit Japanese

MB, UDC

-

KO16DBCS

IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Korean

MB, UDC

-

TH8TISEBCDICS

Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533-EBCDIC Server 8-bit

SB

European

-

-

-

-

BLT8EBCDIC1112S

EBCDIC Code Page 1112 8-bit Server Baltic Multilingual

SB

-

CE8BS2000

Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit Central European

SB

-

CL8BS2000

Siemens EBCDIC.EHC.LC 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1025R

EBCDIC Code Page 1025 Server 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1158R

EBCDIC Code Page 1158 Server 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

D8EBCDIC1141

EBCDIC Code Page 1141 8-bit Austrian German

SB, EURO

-

DK8EBCDIC1142

EBCDIC Code Page 1142 8-bit Danish

SB, EURO

-

EE8BS2000

Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit East European

SB

-

EE8EBCDIC870S

EBCDIC Code Page 870 Server 8-bit East European

SB

-

EL8EBCDIC423R

IBM EBCDIC Code Page 423 for RDBMS server-side

SB

-

EL8EBCDIC875R

EBCDIC Code Page 875 Server 8-bit Greek

SB

-

F8EBCDIC1147

EBCDIC Code Page 1147 8-bit French

SB, EURO

-

I8EBCDIC1144

EBCDIC Code Page 1144 8-bit Italian

SB, EURO

-

SE8EBCDCI1143

EBCDIC Code Page 1143 8-bit Swedish

SB, EURO

-

WE8BS2000

Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit West European

SB

-

WE8BS2000E

Siemens EBCDIC.DF.04 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

-

WE8BS2000L5

Siemens EBCDIC.DF.L5 8-bit West European/Turkish

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC1047E

Latin 1/Open Systems 1047

SB, EBCDIC, EURO

-

WE8EBCDIC1140

EBCDIC Code Page 1140 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

-

WE8EBCDIC1145

EBCDIC Code Page 1145 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

-

WE8DBCDIC1146

EBCDIC Code Page 1146 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

-

WE8EBCDIC1148

EBCDIC Code Page 1148 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

Middle Eastern

-

-

-

-

AR8EBCDIC420S

EBCDIC Code Page 420 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB

-

IW8EBCDIC424S

EBCDIC Code Page 424 Server 8-bit Latin/Hebrew

SB

-

TR8EBCDIC1026S

EBCDIC Code Page 1026 Server 8-bit Turkish

SB

Other Character Sets

Table A-6 lists the other ASCII-based Oracle Database character sets. The list is ordered alphabetically within their language groups.

Table A-6 Other ASCII-based Database Character Sets


 Name Description Comments

Asian

-

-

-

-

BN8BSCII

Bangladesh National Code 8-bit BSCII

SB, ASCII

-

IN8ISCII

Multiple-Script Indian Standard 8-bit Latin/Indian Languages

SB, ASCII

-

JA16VMS

JVMS 16-bit Japanese

MB, ASCII

-

KO16KSC5601

KSC5601 16-bit Korean

MB, ASCII

-

KO16KSCCS

KSCCS 16-bit Korean

MB, ASCII

-

TH8MACTHAIS

Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Thai

SB, ASCII

-

VN8VN3

VN3 8-bit Vietnamese

SB, ASCII

-

ZHS16CGB231280

CGB2312-80 16-bit Simplified Chinese

MB, ASCII

-

ZHT16BIG5

BIG5 16-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII

-

ZHT16CCDC

HP CCDC 16-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII

-

ZHT16DBT

Taiwan Taxation 16-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII

-

ZHT16HKSCS31

MS Windows Code Page 950 with Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set HKSCS-2001 (character set conversion to and from Unicode is based on Unicode 3.1)

MB, ASCII, EURO

-

ZHT32SOPS

SOPS 32-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII

-

ZHT32TRIS

TRIS 32-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, ASCII

Middle Eastern

-

-

-

-

AR8ADOS710

Arabic MS-DOS 710 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8ADOS720

Arabic MS-DOS 720 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8APTEC715

APTEC 715 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8ASMO8X

ASMO Extended 708 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8ISO8859P6

ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8MUSSAD768

Mussa'd Alarabi/2 768 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8NAFITHA711

Nafitha Enhanced 711 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8NAFITHA721

Nafitha International 721 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8SAKHR706

SAKHR 706 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AR8SAKHR707

SAKHR 707 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

AZ8ISO8859P9E

ISO 8859-9 Latin Azerbaijani

SB, ASCII

-

IN8ISCII

Multiple-Script Indian Standard 8-bit Latin/Indian Languages

SB, ASCII

-

IW8MACHEBREW

Mac Client 8-bit Hebrew

SB

-

IW8PC1507

IBM-PC Code Page 1507/862 8-bit Latin/Hebrew

SB, ASCII

-

LA8ISO6937

ISO 6937 8-bit Coded Character Set for Text Communication

SB, ASCII

-

TR8DEC

DEC 8-bit Turkish

SB, ASCII

-

TR8PC857

IBM-PC Code Page 857 8-bit Turkish

SB, ASCII

European

-

-

-

-

AR8ARABICMAC

Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB

-

AR8ARABICMACS

Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

BG8MSWIN

MS Windows 8-bit Bulgarian Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

BG8PC437S

IBM-PC Code Page 437 8-bit (Bulgarian Modification)

SB, ASCII

-

BLT8CP921

Latvian Standard LVS8-92(1) Windows/Unix 8-bit Baltic

SB, ASCII

-

BLT8PC775

IBM-PC Code Page 775 8-bit Baltic

SB, ASCII

-

CDN8PC863

IBM-PC Code Page 863 8-bit Canadian French

SB, ASCII

-

CEL8ISO8859P14

ISO 8859-14 Celtic

SB, ASCII

-

CL8ISOIR111

ISOIR111 Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8KOI8R

RELCOM Internet Standard 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

CL8KOI8U

KOI8 Ukrainian Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8MACCYRILLICS

Mac Server 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

EE8MACCES

Mac Server 8-bit Central European

SB, ASCII

-

EE8MACCROATIANS

Mac Server 8-bit Croatian

SB, ASCII

-

EE8PC852

IBM-PC Code Page 852 8-bit East European

SB, ASCII

-

EL8DEC

DEC 8-bit Latin/Greek

SB

-

EL8MACGREEKS

Mac Server 8-bit Greek

SB, ASCII

-

EL8PC437S

IBM-PC Code Page 437 8-bit (Greek modification)

SB, ASCII

-

EL8PC851

IBM-PC Code Page 851 8-bit Greek/Latin

SB, ASCII

-

EL8PC869

IBM-PC Code Page 869 8-bit Greek/Latin

SB, ASCII

-

ET8MSWIN923

MS Windows Code Page 923 8-bit Estonian

SB, ASCII

-

HU8ABMOD

Hungarian 8-bit Special AB Mod

SB, ASCII

-

HU8CWI2

Hungarian 8-bit CWI-2

SB, ASCII

-

IS8PC861

IBM-PC Code Page 861 8-bit Icelandic

SB, ASCII

-

LA8ISO6937

ISO 6937 8-bit Coded Character Set for Text Communication

SB, ASCII

-

LA8PASSPORT

German Government Printer 8-bit All-European Latin

SB, ASCII

-

LT8MSWIN921

MS Windows Code Page 921 8-bit Lithuanian

SB, ASCII

-

LT8PC772

IBM-PC Code Page 772 8-bit Lithuanian (Latin/Cyrillic)

SB, ASCII

-

LT8PC774

IBM-PC Code Page 774 8-bit Lithuanian (Latin)

SB, ASCII

-

LV8PC8LR

Latvian Version IBM-PC Code Page 866 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

LV8PC1117

IBM-PC Code Page 1117 8-bit Latvian

SB, ASCII

-

LV8RST104090

IBM-PC Alternative Code Page 8-bit Latvian (Latin/Cyrillic)

SB, ASCII

-

N8PC865

IBM-PC Code Page 865 8-bit Norwegian

SB, ASCII

-

RU8BESTA

BESTA 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

RU8PC855

IBM-PC Code Page 855 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

RU8PC866

IBM-PC Code Page 866 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB, ASCII

-

SE8ISO8859P3

ISO 8859-3 South European

SB, ASCII

-

TR8MACTURKISH

Mac Client 8-bit Turkish

SB

-

TR8MACTURKISHS

Mac Server 8-bit Turkish

SB, ASCII

-

TR8PC857

IBM-PC Code Page 857 8-bit Turkish

SB, ASCII

-

US7ASCII

ASCII 7-bit American

SB, ASCII

-

US8PC437

IBM-PC Code Page 437 8-bit American

SB, ASCII

-

WE8DEC

DEC 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8DG

DG 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8ISO8859P1

ISO 8859-1 West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8MACROMAN8S

Mac Server 8-bit Extended Roman8 West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8NCR4970

NCR 4970 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8NEXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP PostScript 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8PC850

IBM-PC Code Page 850 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8PC858

IBM-PC Code Page 858 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII, EURO

-

WE8PC860

IBM-PC Code Page 860 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

-

WE8ROMAN8

HP Roman8 8-bit West European

SB, ASCII

Universal

-

-

-

-

UTF8

Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set, CESU-8 compliant

MB, ASCII, EURO

Table A-7 lists the other EBCDIC-based Oracle Database character sets. The list is ordered alphabetically within their language groups.

Table A-7 Other EBCDIC-based Database Character Sets


 Name Description Comments

Asian

-

-

-

-

TH8TISEBCDIC

Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 - EBCDIC 8-bit

SB

-

ZHS16DBCS

IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Simplified Chinese

MB, UDC

-

ZHT16DBCS

IBM EBCDIC 16-bit Traditional Chinese

MB, UDC

Middle Eastern

-

-

-

-

AR8EBCDICX

EBCDIC XBASIC Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB

-

IW8EBCDIC424

EBCDIC Code Page 424 8-bit Latin/Hebrew

SB

-

IW8EBCDIC1086

EBCDIC Code Page 1086 8-bit Hebrew

SB

-

TR8EBCDIC1026

EBCDIC Code Page 1026 8-bit Turkish

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC37C

EBCDIC Code Page 37 8-bit Oracle/c

SB

European

-

-

-

-

BLT8EBCDIC1112

EBCDIC Code Page 1112 8-bit Server Baltic Multilingual

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1025

EBCDIC Code Page 1025 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1025C

EBCDIC Code Page 1025 Client 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1025S

EBCDIC Code Page 1025 Server 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1025X

EBCDIC Code Page 1025 (Modified) 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

CL8EBCDIC1158

EBCDIC Code Page 1158 8-bit Cyrillic

SB

-

D8BS2000

Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit German

SB

-

D8EBCDIC273

EBCDIC Code Page 273/1 8-bit Austrian German

SB

-

DK7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Danish

SB

-

DK8BS2000

Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit Danish

SB

-

DK8EBCDIC277

EBCDIC Code Page 277/1 8-bit Danish

SB

-

E8BS2000

Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit Spanish

SB

-

EE8EBCDIC870

EBCDIC Code Page 870 8-bit East European

SB

-

EE8EBCDIC870C

EBCDIC Code Page 870 Client 8-bit East European

SB

-

EL8EBCDIC875

EBCDIC Code Page 875 8-bit Greek

SB

-

EL8GCOS7

Bull EBCDIC GCOS7 8-bit Greek

SB

-

F8BS2000

Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit French

SB

-

F8EBCDIC297

EBCDIC Code Page 297 8-bit French

SB

-

I8EBCDIC280

EBCDIC Code Page 280/1 8-bit Italian

SB

-

S8BS2000

Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit Swedish

SB

-

S8EBCDIC278

EBCDIC Code Page 278/1 8-bit Swedish

SB

-

US8ICL

ICL EBCDIC 8-bit American

SB

-

US8BS2000

Siemens 9750-62 EBCDIC 8-bit American

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC924

Latin 9 EBCDIC 924

SB, EBCDIC

-

WE8EBCDIC37

EBCDIC Code Page 37 8-bit West European

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC284

EBCDIC Code Page 284 8-bit Latin American/Spanish

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC285

EBCDIC Code Page 285 8-bit West European

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC1047

EBCDIC Code Page 1047 8-bit West European

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC1140C

EBCDIC Code Page 1140 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

-

WE8EBCDIC1148C

EBCDIC Code Page 1148 Client 8-bit West European

SB, EURO

-

WE8EBCDIC500C

EBCDIC Code Page 500 8-bit Oracle/c

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC500

EBCDIC Code Page 500 8-bit West European

SB

-

WE8EBCDIC871

EBCDIC Code Page 871 8-bit Icelandic

SB

-

WE8ICL

ICL EBCDIC 8-bit West European

SB

-

WE8GCOS7

Bull EBCDIC GCOS7 8-bit West European

SB

Universal

-

-

-

-

UTFE

EBCDIC form of Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set (UTF-EBCDIC)

MB, EURO

Character Sets that Support the Euro Symbol

Table A-8 lists the character sets that support the Euro symbol.

Table A-8 Character Sets that Support the Euro Symbol

Character Set Name Hexadecimal Code Value of the Euro Symbol

AL16UTF16

20AC

AL32UTF8

E282AC

AR8MSWIN1256

80

BLT8MSWIN1257

80

CL8EBCDIC1158

E1

CL8EBCDIC1158R

9F

CL8MSWIN1251

88

D8EBCDIC1141

9F

DK8EBCDIC1142

5A

EE8MSWIN1250

80

EL8EBCDIC423R

FD

EL8EBCDIC875R

DF

EL8ISO8859P7

A4

EL8MSWIN1253

80

F8EBCDIC1147

9F

I8EBCDIC1144

9F

IW8MSWIN1255

80

KO16KSC5601

A2E6

KO16KSCCS

D9E6

KO16MSWIN949

A2E6

SE8EBCDIC1143

5A

TH8TISASCII

80

TR8MSWIN1254

80

UTF8

E282AC

UTFE

CA4653

VN8MSWIN1258

80

WE8BS2000E

9F

WE8EBCDIC1047E

9F

WE8EBCDIC1140

9F

WE8EBCDIC1140C

9F

WE8EBCDIC1145

9F

WE8EBCDIC1146

9F

WE8EBCDIC1148

9F

WE8EBCDIC1148C

9F

WE8EBCDIC924

9F

WE8ISO8859P15

A4

WE8MACROMAN8

DB

WE8MACROMAN8S

DB

WE8MSWIN1252

80

WE8PC858

DF

ZHS32GB18030

A2E3

ZHT16HKSCS

A3E1

ZHT16HKSCS31

A3E1

ZHT16MSWIN950

A3E1

Client-Only Character Sets

Table A-9 lists the Oracle Database character sets that are supported as client-only character sets. The list is ordered alphabetically within their respective language groups.

Table A-9 Client-Only Character Sets


 Name Description Comments

Asian

-

-

-

-

JA16EUCYEN

EUC 24-bit Japanese with '\' mapped to the Japanese yen character

MB

-

JA16MACSJIS

Mac client Shift-JIS 16-bit Japanese

MB

-

JA16SJISYEN

Shift-JIS 16-bit Japanese with '\' mapped to the Japanese yen character

MB, UDC

-

TH8MACTHAI

Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Thai

SB

-

ZHS32GB18030

GB18030-2000

MB, ASCII, EURO

-

ZHS16MACCGB231280

Mac client CGB2312-80 16-bit Simplified Chinese

MB

European

-

-

-

-

CH7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Swiss (German/French)

SB

-

CL8MACCYRILLIC

Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic

SB

-

D7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit German

SB

-

D7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit German

SB

-

EEC8EUROASCI

EEC Targon 35 ASCI West European/Greek

SB

-

EEC8EUROPA3

EEC EUROPA3 8-bit West European/Greek

SB

-

EE8MACCROATIAN

Mac Client 8-bit Croatian

SB

-

EE8MACCE

Mac Client 8-bit Central European

SB

-

EL8PC737

IBM-PC Code Page 737 8-bit Greek/Latin

SB

-

EL8MACGREEK

Mac Client 8-bit Greek

SB

-

E7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Spanish

SB

-

E7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Spanish

SB

-

F7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit French

SB

-

F7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit French

SB

-

I7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Italian

SB

-

I7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Italian

SB

-

IS8MACICELANDICS

Mac Server 8-bit Icelandic

SB

-

IS8MACICELANDIC

Mac Client 8-bit Icelandic

SB

-

NL7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Dutch

SB

-

NDK7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Norwegian/Danish

SB

-

N7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Norwegian

SB

-

SF7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Finnish

SB

-

S7SIEMENS9780X

Siemens 97801/97808 7-bit Swedish

SB

-

S7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Swedish

SB

-

SF7ASCII

ASCII 7-bit Finnish

SB

-

TR7DEC

DEC VT100 7-bit Turkish

SB

-

WE8ISOICLUK

ICL special version ISO8859-1

SB

-

WE8MACROMAN8

Mac Client 8-bit Extended Roman8 West European

SB

-

WE8HP

HP LaserJet 8-bit West European

SB

-

YUG7ASCII

ASCII 7-bit Yugoslavian

SB

Middle Eastern

-

-

-

-

AR8ARABICMAC

Mac Client 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB

-

AR8MUSSAD768

Mussa'd Alarabi/2 768 Server 8-bit Latin/Arabic

SB, ASCII

-

IW7IS960

Israeli Standard 960 7-bit Latin/Hebrew

SB

-

IW8MACHEBREW

Mac Client 8-bit Hebrew

SB

-

TR8MACTURKISH

Mac Client 8-bit Turkish

SB

Universal Character Sets

Table A-10 lists the Oracle Database character sets that provide universal language support. They attempt to support all languages of the world, including, but not limited to, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern languages.

Table A-10 Universal Character Sets

Name Description Comments

AL16UTF16

Unicode 5.0 UTF-16 Universal character set

MB, EURO, FIXED

AL32UTF8

Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set

MB, ASCII, EURO

UTF8

Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set, CESU-8 compliant

MB, ASCII, EURO

UTFE

EBCDIC form of Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set (UTF-EBCDIC)

MB, EURO

Note:

CESU-8 defines an encoding scheme for Unicode that is identical to UTF-8 except for its representation of supplementary characters. In CESU-8, supplementary characters are represented as six-byte sequences that result from the transformation of each UTF-16 surrogate code unit into an eight-bit form that is similar to the UTF-8 transformation, but without first converting the input surrogate pairs to a scalar value. See Unicode Technical Report #26.

See Also:

Chapter 6, "Supporting Multilingual Databases with Unicode"

Character Set Conversion Support

The following character set encodings are supported for conversion only. They cannot be used as the database or national character set:

AL16UTF16LE
ISO2022-CN
ISO2022-JP
ISO2022-KR
HZ-GB-2312

You can use these character sets as the source_char_set or dest_char_set in the CONVERT function.

See Oracle Database SQL Language Reference for more information about the CONVERT function and "The CONVERT Function".

Subsets and Supersets

Table A-11 lists common subset/superset relationships.

Table A-11 Subset-Superset Pairs

Subset Superset

AR8ARABICMACT

AR8ARABICMAC

AR8ISO8859P6

AR8ASMO8X

BLT8CP921

BLT8ISO8859P13

BLT8CP921

LT8MSWIN921

D7DEC

D7SIEMENS9780X

D7SIEMENS9780X

D7DEC

DK7SIEMENS9780X

N7SIEMENS9780X

I7DEC

I7SIEMENS9780X

I7SIEMENS9780X

IW8EBCDIC424

IW8EBCDIC424

IW8EBCDIC1086

KO16KSC5601

KO16MSWIN949

LT8MSWIN921

BLT8ISO8859P13

LT8MSWIN921

BLT8CP921

N7SIEMENS9780X

DK7SIEMENS9780X

US7ASCII

See Table A-12, "US7ASCII Supersets".

UTF8

AL32UTF8

WE8DEC

TR8DEC

WE8DEC

WE8NCR4970

WE8ISO8859P1

WE8MSWIN1252

WE8ISO8859P9

TR8MSWIN1254

WE8NCR4970

TR8DEC

WE8NCR4970

WE8DEC

WE8PC850

WE8PC858

US7ASCII is a special case because so many other character sets are supersets of it. Table A-12 lists supersets for US7ASCII.

Table A-12 US7ASCII Supersets

Supersets a-c Supersets e-n Supersets r-z

AL32UTF8

EE8MACCROATIANS

RU8BESTA

AR8ADOS710

EE8MSWIN1250

RU8PC855

AR8ADOS720

EE8PC852

RU8PC866

AR8APTEC715

EL8DEC

SE8ISO8859P3

AR8ARABICMACS

EL8ISO8859P7

TH8MACTHAIS

AR8ASMO8X

EL8MACGREEKS

TH8TISASCII

AR8ISO8859P6

EL8MSWIN1253

TR8DEC

AR8MSWIN1256

EL8PC437S

TR8MACTURKISHS

AR8MUSSAD768

EL8PC851

TR8MSWIN1254

AR8NAFITHA711

EL8PC869

TR8PC857

AR8NAFITHA721

ET8MSWIN923

US8PC437

AR8SAKHR706

HU8ABMOD

UTF8

AR8SAKHR707

HU8CWI2

VN8MSWIN1258

AZ8ISO8859P9E

IN8ISCII

VN8VN3

BG8MSWIN

IS8PC861

WE8DEC

BG8PC437S

IW8ISO8859P8

WE8DG

BLT8CP921

IW8MACHEBREWS

WE8ISO8859P1

BLT8ISO8859P13

IW8MSWIN1255

WE8ISO8859P15

BLT8MSWIN1257

IW8PC1507

WE8ISO8859P9

BLT8PC775

JA16EUC

WE8MACROMAN8S

BN8BSCII

JA16EUCTILDE

WE8MSWIN1252

CDN8PC863

JA16SJIS

WE8NCR4970

CEL8ISO8859P14

JA16SJISTILDE

WE8NEXTSTEP

CL8ISO8859P5

JA16VMS

WE8PC850

CL8KOI8R

KO16KSC5601

WE8PC858

CL8KOI8U

KO16KSCCS

WE8PC860

CL8ISOIR111

KO16MSWIN949

WE8ROMAN8

CL8MACCYRILLICS

LA8ISO6937

ZHS16CGB231280

CL8MSWIN1251

LA8PASSPORT

ZHS16GBK

EE8ISO8859P2

LT8MSWIN921

ZHT16BIG5

EE8MACCES

LT8PC772

ZHT16CCDC

-

LT8PC774

ZHT16DBT

-

LV8PC1117

ZHT16HKSCS

-

LV8PC8LR

ZHT16MSWIN950

-

LV8RST104090

ZHT32EUC

-

N8PC865

ZHT32SOPS

-

NE8ISO8859P10

ZHT32TRIS

-

NEE8ISO8859P4

ZHS32GB18030

Language and Character Set Detection Support

Table A-13 displays the languages and character sets that are supported by the language and character set detection in the Character Set Scanner utilities (CSSCAN and LCSSCAN) and the Globalization Development Kit (GDK).

Each language has several character sets that can be detected.

When the binary values for a language match two or more encodings that have a subset/superset relationship, the subset character set is returned. For example, if the language is German and all characters are 7-bit, then US7ASCII is returned instead of WE8MSWIN1252, WE8ISO8859P15, or WE8ISO8859P1.

When the character set is determined to be UTF-8, the Oracle Database character set UTF8 is returned by default unless 4-byte characters (supplementary characters) are detected within the text. If 4-byte characters are detected, then the character set is reported as AL32UTF8.

Table A-13 Languages and Character Sets Supported by CSSCAN, LCSSCAN, and GDK

Language Character Sets

Arabic

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, UTF8

Bulgarian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, CL8ISO8859P5, CL8MSWIN1251, UTF8

Catalan

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Croatian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8

Czech

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8

Danish

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Dutch

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

English

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Estonian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, NEE8IOS8859P4, UTF8

Finnish

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

French

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

German

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Greek

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EL8ISO8859P7, EL8MSWIN1253, UTF8

Hebrew

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, IW8ISO8859P8, IW8MSWIN1255, UTF8

Hungarian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8

Italian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Japanese

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, ISO2022-JP, JA16EUC, JA16SJIS, UTF8

Korean

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, ISO2022-KR, KO16KSC5601, KO16MSWIN949, UTF8

Malay

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Norwegian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Polish

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8

Portuguese

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Romanian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8

Russian

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, CL8ISO8859P5, CL8KOI8R, CL8MSWIN1251, UTF8

Simplified Chinese

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, HZ-GB-2312, UTF8, ZHS16GBK, ZHS16CGB231280

Slovak

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, EE8ISO8859P2, EE8MSWIN1250, UTF8

Spanish

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Swedish

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, US7ASCII, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P1, WE8ISO8859P15, WE8MSWIN1252

Thai

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, TH8TISASCII, UTF8

Traditional Chinese

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, UTF8, ZHT16MSWIN950

Turkish

AL16UTF16, AL32UTF8, TR8MSWIN1254, UTF8, WE8ISO8859P9

Linguistic Sorts

Oracle Database offers two kinds of linguistic sorts, monolingual and multilingual. In addition, monolingual sorts can be extended to handle special cases. These special cases (represented with a prefix X) typically mean that the characters are sorted differently from their ASCII values. For example, ch and ll are treated as a single character in XSPANISH.

All of the linguistic sorts can be also be performed as case-insensitive or accent-insensitive by appending _CI or _AI to the linguistic sort name.

Table A-14 lists the monolingual linguistic sorts supported by Oracle Database.

See Also:

Table A-1, "Oracle Database Supported Languages" for a list of the default sort for each language

Table A-14 Monolingual Linguistic Sorts

Basic Name Extended Name Special Cases

ARABIC

-

-

ARABIC_MATCH

-

-

ARABIC_ABJ_SORT

-

-

ARABIC_ABJ_MATCH

-

-

ASCII7

-

-

AZERBAIJANI

XAZERBAIJANI

i, I, lowercase i without dot, uppercase I with dot

BENGALI

-

-

BIG5

-

-

BINARY

-

-

BULGARIAN

-

-

CATALAN

XCATALAN

æ, AE, ß

CROATIAN

XCROATIAN

D, L, N, d, l, n, ß

CZECH

XCZECH

ch, CH, Ch, ß

CZECH_PUNCTUATION

XCZECH_PUNCTUATION

ch, CH, Ch, ß

DANISH

XDANISH

A, ß, Å, å

DUTCH

XDUTCH

ij, IJ

EBCDIC

-

-

EEC_EURO

-

-

EEC_EUROPA3

-

-

ESTONIAN

-

-

FINNISH

-

-

FRENCH

XFRENCH

-

GERMAN

XGERMAN

ß

GERMAN_DIN

XGERMAN_DIN

ß, ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü

GBK

-

-

GREEK

-

-

HEBREW

-

-

HKSCS

-

-

HUNGARIAN

XHUNGARIAN

cs, gy, ny, sz, ty, zs, ß, CS, Cs, GY, Gy, NY, Ny, SZ, Sz, TY, Ty, ZS, Zs

ICELANDIC

-

-

INDONESIAN

-

-

ITALIAN

-

-

LATIN

-

-

LATVIAN

-

-

LITHUANIAN

-

-

MALAY

-

-

NORWEGIAN

-

-

POLISH

-

-

PUNCTUATION

XPUNCTUATION

-

ROMANIAN

-

-

RUSSIAN

-

-

SLOVAK

XSLOVAK

dz, DZ, Dz, ß (caron)

SLOVENIAN

XSLOVENIAN

ß

SPANISH

XSPANISH

ch, ll, CH, Ch, LL, Ll

SWEDISH

-

-

SWISS

XSWISS

ß

TURKISH

XTURKISH

æ, AE, ß

UKRAINIAN

-

-

UNICODE_BINARY

-

-

VIETNAMESE

-

-

WEST_EUROPEAN

XWEST_EUROPEAN

ß

Table A-15 lists the multilingual linguistic sorts available in Oracle Database. All of them include GENERIC_M (an ISO standard for sorting Latin-based characters) as a base. Multilingual linguistic sorts are used for a specific primary language together with Latin-based characters. For example, KOREAN_M sorts Korean and Latin-based characters, but it does not collate Chinese, Thai, or Japanese characters.

Table A-15 Multilingual LInguistic Sorts

Sort Name Description

CANADIAN_M

Canadian French sort supports reverse secondary, special expanding characters

DANISH_M

Danish sort supports sorting uppercase characters before lowercase characters

FRENCH_M

French sort supports reverse sort for secondary

GENERIC_M

Generic sorting order which is based on ISO14651 and Unicode canonical equivalence rules but excluding compatible equivalence rules

JAPANESE_M

Japanese sort supports SJIS character set order and EUC characters which are not included in SJIS

KOREAN_M

Korean sort: Hangul characters are based on Unicode binary order. Hanja characters based on pronunciation order. All Hangul characters are before Hanja characters

SPANISH_M

Traditional Spanish sort supports special contracting characters

THAI_M

Thai sort supports swap characters for some vowels and consonants

SCHINESE_RADICAL_M

Simplified Chinese sort based on radical as primary order and number of strokes order as secondary order

SCHINESE_STROKE_M

Simplified Chinese sort uses number of strokes as primary order and radical as secondary order

SCHINESE_PINYIN_M

Simplified Chinese PinYin sorting order

TCHINESE_RADICAL_M

Traditional Chinese sort based on radical as primary order and number of strokes order as secondary order

TCHINESE_STROKE_M

Traditional Chinese sort uses number of strokes as primary order and radical as secondary order. It supports supplementary characters.

See Also:

Chapter 5, "Linguistic Sorting and String Searching"

Calendar Systems

By default, most territory definitions use the Gregorian calendar system. Table A-14 lists the other calendar systems supported by Oracle Database.

Table A-16 Supported Calendar Systems

Name Default Date Format Character Set Used For Default Date Format

Japanese Imperial

EEYYMMDD

JA16EUC

ROC Official

EEyymmdd

ZHT32EUC

Thai Buddha

dd month EE yyyy

TH8TISASCII

Persian

DD Month YYYY

AR8ASMO8X

Arabic Hijrah

DD Month YYYY

AR8ISO8859P6

English Hijrah

DD Month YYYY

AR8ISO8859P6

Figure A-1 shows how March 27, 1998 appears in Japanese Imperial.

Figure A-1 Japanese Imperial Example

Description of Figure A-1 follows
Description of "Figure A-1 Japanese Imperial Example"

Time Zone Region Names

Table A-17 shows the time zone region names in the time zone files for version 11 that are supplied with the Oracle Database. See Chapter 4, "Datetime Data Types and Time Zone Support" for more information regarding time zone files.

You can see the time zone region names by issuing the following statement:

SELECT DISTINCT(TZNAME) FROM V$TIMEZONE_NAMES;

Table A-17 Time Zone Region Names

Time Zone Name In the Smaller Time Zone File? Time Zone Name In the Smaller Time Zone File?

Afric/Abidjan

No

Asia/Qatar

No

Africa/Accra

No

Asia/Qyzylorda

No

Africa/Addis_Ababa

No

Asia/Rangoon

No

Africa/Algiers

No

Asia/Riyadh

Yes

Africa/Asmara

No

Asia/Saigon

No

Africa/Asmera

No

Asia/Sakhalin

No

Africa/Bamako

No

Asia/Samarkand

No

Africa/Bangui

No

Asia/Seoul

Yes

Africa/Banjul

No

Asia/Shanghai

Yes

Africa/Bissau

No

Asia/Singapore

Yes

Africa/Blantyre

No

Asia/Taipei

Yes

Africa/Brazzaville

No

Asia/Tashkent

No

Afria/Bujumbura

No

Asia/Tbilisi

No

Africa/Cairo

Yes

Asia/Tehran

Yes

Africa/Casablanca

No

Asia/Tel_Aviv

Yes

Africa/Ceuta

No

Asia/Thimbu

No

Africa/Conakry

No

Asia/Thimphu

No

Africa/Dakar

No

Asia/Tokyo

Yes

Africa/Dar_es_Salaam

No

Asia/Ujung_Pandang

No

Africa/Djibouti

No

Asia/Ulaanbaator

No

Africa/Doula

No

Asia/Ulan_Bator

No

Africa/El_Aaiun

No

Asia/Urumqi

No

Africa/Freetown

No

Asia/Vientiane

No

Africa/Gaborone

No

Asia/Vladivostok

No

Africa/Harare

No

Asia/Yakutsk

No

Africa/Johannesburg

No

Asia/Yetaterinburg

No

Africa/Kampala

No

Asia/Yerevan

No

Africa/Khartoum

No

Atlantic/Azores

No

Africa/Kigali

No

Atlantic/Bermuda

No

Africa/Kinshasa

No

Atlantic/Canary

No

Africa/Lagos

No

Atlantic/Cape_Verde

No

Africa/Libreville

No

Atlantic/Faeroe

No

Africa/Lome

No

Atlantic/Faroe

No

Africa/Luanda

No

Atlantic/Jan_Mayen

No

Africa/Lubumbashi

No

Atlantic/Madeira

No

Africa/Lusaka

No

Atlantic/Reykjavik

Yes

Africa/Malabo

No

Atlantic/South_Georgia

No

Africa/Maputo

No

Atlantic/St_Helena

No

Africa/Maseru

No

Atlantic/Stanley

No

Africa/Mbabane

No

Australia/ACT

Yes

Africa/Mogadishu

No

Australia/Adelaide

Yes

Africa/Monrovia

No

Australia/Brisbane

Yes

Africa/Nairobi

No

Australia/Broken_Hill

Yes

Africa/Ndjamena

No

Australia/Canberra

Yes

Africa/Niamey

No

Australia/Currie

No

Africa/Nouakchott

No

Australia/Darwin

Yes

Africa/Ouagadougou

No

Australia/Eucla

No

Africa/Porto-Novo

No

Australia/Hobart

Yes

Africa/Sao_Tome

No

Australia/LHI

Yes

Africa/Timbuktu

No

Australia/Lindeman

Yes

Africa/Tripoli

Yes

Australia/Lord_Howe

Yes

Africa/Tunis

No

Australia/Melbourne

Yes

Africa/Windhoek

No

Australia/NSW

Yes

America/Adak

Yes

Australia/North

Yes

America/Anchorage

Yes

Australia/Perth

Yes

America/Anguilla

No

Australia/Queensland

Yes

Ameica/Antigua

No

Australia/South

Yes

America/Araguaina

No

Australia/Sydney

Yes

America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires

No

Australia/Tasmania

Yes

America/Argentina/Catamarca

No

Australia/Victoria

Yes

America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia

No

Australia/West

Yes

America/Argentina/Cordoba

No

Australia/Yancowinna

Yes

America/Argentina/Jujuy

No

Brazil/Acre

Yes

America/Argentina/La_Rioja

Yes

Brazil/DeNoronha

Yes

America/Argentina/Mendoza

No

Brazil/East

Yes

America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos

Yes

Brazil/West

Yes

America/Argentina/Salta

No

CET

Yes

America/Argentina/San_Juan

Yes

CST

Yes

America/Argentina/San_Luis

No

CST6CDT

Yes

America/Argentina/Tucuman

Yes

Canada/Atlantic

Yes

America/Argentina/Ushuaia

Yes

Canada/Central

Yes

America/Aruba

No

Canada/East-Saskatchewan

Yes

America/Asuncion

No

Canada/Eastern

Yes

America/Atikokan

No

Canada/Mountain

Yes

America/Atka

Yes

Canada/Newfoundland

Yes

America/Bahia

No

Canada/Pacific

Yes

America/Barbados

No

Canada/Saskatchewan

Yes

America/Belem

No

Canada/Yukon

Yes

America/Belize

No

Chile/Continental

Yes

America/Blanc-Sablon

No

Chile/EasterIsland

Yes

America/Boa_Vista

No

Cuba

Yes

America/Bogota

No

EET

Yes

America/Boise

No

EST

Yes

America/Buenos_Aires

No

EST5EDT

Yes

America/Cambridge_Bay

No

Egypt

Yes

America/Campo_Grande

No

Eire

Yes

America/Cancun

No

Etc/GMT

Yes

America/Caracas

No

Etc/GMT+0

Yes

America/Catamarca

No

Etc/GMT+1

Yes

America/Cayenne

No

Etc/GMT+10

Yes

America/Cayman

No

Etc/GMT+11

Yes

America/Chicago

Yes

Etc/GMT+12

Yes

America/Chihuahua

No

Etc/GMT+2

Yes

America/Coral_Harbour

No

Etc/GMT+3

Yes

America/Cordoba

No

Etc/GMT+4

Yes

America/Costa_Rica

No

Etc/GMT+5

Yes

America/Cuiaba

No

Etc/GMT+6

Yes

America/Curacao

No

Etc/GMT+7

Yes

America/Danmarkshavn

No

Etc/GMT+8

Yes

America/Dawson

No

Etc/GMT+9

Yes

America/Dawson_Creek

No

Etc/GMT-0

Yes

America/Denver

Yes

Etc/GMT-1

Yes

America/Detroit

Yes

Etc/GMT-10

Yes

America/Dominica

No

Etc/GMT-11

Yes

America/Edmonton

Yes

Etc/GMT-12

Yes

America/Eirunepe

Yes

Etc/GMT-13

Yes

America/El_Salvador

No

Etc/GMT-14

Yes

America/Ensenada

Yes

Etc/GMT-2

Yes

America/Fort_Wayne

Yes

Etc/GMT-3

Yes

America/Fortaleza

No

Etc/GMT-4

Yes

America/Glace_Bay

No

Etc/GMT-5

Yes

America/Godthab

No

Etc/GMT-6

yes

America/Goose_Bay

No

Etc/GMT-7

Yes

America/Grand_Turk

No

Etc/GMT-8

Yes

America/Grenada

No

Etc/GMT-9

Yes

America/Guadeloupe

No

Etc/GMT0

Yes

America/Guatemala

No

Etc/Greenwich

Yes

America/Guayaquil

No

Europe/Amsterdam

No

America/Guyana

No

-

-

America/Halifax

Yes

Europe/Andorra

No

America/Havana

Yes

Europe/Athens

No

America/Hermosillo

No

Europe/Belfast

Yes

America/Indiana/Indianapolis

Yes

Europe/Belgrade

No

America/Indiana/Knox

No

Europe/Berlin

No

America/Indiana/Marengo

No

Europe/Bratislava

No

America/Indiana/Petersburg

No

Europe/Brussels

No

America/Indiana/Tell_City

No

Europe/Bucharest

No

America/Indiana/Vevay

No

Europe/Budapest

No

America/Indiana/Vincennes

No

Europe/Chisinau

No

America/Indiana/Winamac

No

Europe/Copenhagen

No

America/Indianapolis

Yes

Europe/Dublin

Yes

America/Inuvik

No

Europe/Gibraltar

No

America/Iqaluit

No

Europe/Guernsey

Yes

America/Jamaica

Yes

Europe/Helsinki

No

America/Jujuy

No

Europe/Isle_of_Man

Yes

America/Juneau

No

Europe/Istanbul

Yes

America/Kentucky/Louisville

No

Europe/Jersey

Yes

America/Kentucky/Monticello

No

Europe/Kaliningrad

No

America/Knox_IN

No

Europe/Kiev

No

America/La_Paz

No

Europe/Lisbon

Yes

America/Lima

No

Europe/Ljubljana

No

America/Los_Angeles

Yes

Europe/London

Yes

America/Louisville

No

Europe/Luxembourg

No

America/Maceio

No

Europe/Madrid

No

America/Managua

No

Europe/Malta

No

America/Manaus

Yes

Europe/Mariehamn

No

America/Marigot

No

Europe/Minsk

No

America/Martinique

No

Europe/Monaco

No

America/Mazatlan

Yes

Europe/Moscow

Yes

America/Mendoza

No

Europe/Nicosia

No

America/Menominee

No

Europe/Oslo

No

America/Merida

No

Europe/Paris

No

America/Mexico_City

Yes

Europe/Podgorica

No

America/Miquelon

No

Europe/Prague

No

America/Moncton

No

Europe/Riga

No

America/Monterrey

Yes

Europe/Rome

No

America/Montevideo

No

Europe/Samara

No

America/Montreal

Yes

Europe/San_Marino

No

America/Montserrat

No

Europe/Sarajevo

No

America/Nassau

No

Europe/Simferopol

No

America/New_York

Yes

Europe/Skopje

No

America/Nipigon

No

Europe/Sofia

No

America/Nome

No

Europe/Stockholm

No

America/Noronha

Yes

Europe/Tallinn

No

America/North_Dakota/Center

No

Europe/Tirane

No

America/North_Dakota/New_Salem

No

Europe/Tiraspol

No

America/Panama

No

Europe/Uzhgorod

No

America/Pangnirtung

No

Europe/Vaduz

No

America/Paramaribo

No

Europe/Vatican

No

America/Phoenix

Yes

Europe/Vienna

No

America/Port-au-Prince

No

Europe/Vilnius

No

America/Port_of_Spain

No

Europe/Volgograd

No

America/Porto_Acre

No

Europe/Warsaw

Yes

America/Porto_Velho

No

Europe/Zagreb

No

America/Port_of_Spain

No

Europe/Zaporozhye

No

America/Porto_Acre

No

Europe/Zurich

No

America/Porto_Velho

No

GB

Yes

America/Puerto_Rico

No

GB-Eire

Yes

America/Rainy_River

No

GMT

Yes

America/Rankin_Inlet

No

GMT+0

Yes

America/Recife

No

GMT-0

Yes

America/Regina

Yes

GMT0

Yes

America/Resolute

No

Greenwich

Yes

America/Rio_Branco

Yes

HST

Yes

America/Rosario

No

Hongkong

Yes

America/Santiago

Yes

Iceland

Yes

America/Santo_Domingo

No

Indian/Antananarivo

No

America/Sao_Paulo

Yes

Indian/Chagos

No

America/Scoresbysund

No

Indian/Christmas

No

America/Shiprock

Yes

Indian/Cocos

No

America/St_Barthelemy

No

Indian/Comoro

No

America/St_Johns

Yes

Indian/Kerguelen

No

America/St_Kitts

No

Indian/Mahe

No

America/St_Lucia

No

Indian/Maldives

No

America/St_Thomas

No

Indian/Mauritius

No

America/St_Vincent

No

Indian/Mayotte

No

America/Swift_Current

No

Indian/Reunion

No

America/Tegucigalpa

No

Iran

Yes

America/Thule

No

Israel

Yes

America/Thunder_Bay

No

Jamaica

Yes

America/Tijuana

Yes

Japan

Yes

America/Tortola

No

Kwajalein

Yes

America/Vancouver

Yes

Libya

Yes

America/Virgin

No

MET

Yes

America/Whitehorse

Yes

MST

Yes

America/Winnipeg

Yes

MST7MDT

Yes

America/Yakutat

No

Mexico/BajaNorte

Yes

America/Yellowknife

No

Mexico/BajaSur

Yes

Antarctica/Casey

No

Mexico/General

Yes

Antarctica/Davis

No

NZ

Yes

Antarctica/DumontDUrville

No

NZ-CHAT

Yes

Antarctica/Mawson

No

Navajo

Yes

Antarctica/McMurdo

No

PRC

Yes

Antarctica/Palmer

No

PST

Yes

Antarctica/South_Pole

No

PST8PDT

Yes

Antarctica/Syowa

No

Pacific/Apia

No

Arctic/Longyearbyen

No

Pacific/Auckland

Yes

Asia/Aden

No

Pacific/Chatham

Yes

Asia/Almaty

No

Pacific/Easter

Yes

Asia/Amman

No

Pacific/Efate

No

Asia/Anadyr

No

Pacific/Enderbury

No

Asia/Aqtau

No

Pacific/Fakaofo

No

Asia/Aqtobe

No

Pacific/Fiji

No

Asia/Ashgabat

No

Pacific/Funafuji

No

Asia/Ashkhabad

No

Pacific/Galapagos

No

Asia/Baghdad

No

Pacific/Gambier

No

Asia/Bahrain

No

Pacific/Guadalcanal

No

Asia/Baku

No

Pacific/Guam

No

Asia/Bangkok

No

Pacific/Honolulu

Yes

Asia/Beirut

No

Pacific/Johnston

No

Asia/Bishkek

No

Pacific/Kiritimati

No

Asia/Brunei

No

Pacific/Kosrae

No

Asia/Calcutta

Yes

Pacific/Kwajalein

Yes

Asia/Choibalsan

No

Pacific/Majuro

No

Asia/Chongqing

No

Pacific/Marquesas

No

Asia/Chungking

No

Pacific/Midway

No

Asia/Colombo

No

Pacific/Nauru

No

Asia/Dacca

No

Pacific/Niue

No

Asia/Damascus

No

Pacific/Norfolk

No

Asia/Dhaka

No

Pacific/Noumea

No

Asia/Dili

No

Pacific/Pago_Pago

Yes

Asia/Dubai

No

Pacific/Palau

No

Asia/Dushanbe

No

Pacific/Pitcairn

No

Asia/Gaza

No

Pacific/Ponape

No

Asia/Harbin

No

Pacific/Rarotonga

No

Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh

No

Pacific/Rarotonga

No

Asia/Hong_Kong

Yes

Pacific/Saipan

No

Asia/Hovd

No

Pacific/Samoa

Yes

Asia/Irkutsk

No

Pacific/Tahiti

No

Asia/Istanbul

Yes

Pacific/Tarawa

No

Asia/Jakarta

No

Pacific/Tongatapu

No

Asia/Jayapura

No

Pacific/Truk

No

Asia/Jerusalem

Yes

Pacific/Wake

No

Asia/Kabul

No

Pacific/Wallis

No

Asia/Kamchatka

No

Pacific/Yap

No

Asia/Karachi

No

Poland

Yes

Asia/Kashgar

No

Portugal

Yes

Asia/Kathmandu

No

ROC

Yes

Asia/Katmandu

No

ROK

Yes

Asia/Kolkata

No

Singapore

Yes

Asia/Krasnoyarsk

No

Turkey

Yes

Asia/Kuala_Lumpur

No

US/Alaska

Yes

Asia/Kuching

No

US/Aleutian

Yes

Asia/Kuwait

No

US/Arizona

Yes

Asia/Macao

No

US/Central

Yes

Asia/Macau

No

US/East-Indiana

Yes

Asia/Magadan

No

US/Eastern

Yes

Asia/Makassar

No

US/Hawaii

Yes

Asia/Manila

No

US/Indiana-Starke

No

Asia/Muscat

No

US/Michigan

Yes

Asia/Nicosia

No

US/Mountain

Yes

Asia/Novosibirsk

No

US/Pacific

Yes

Asia/Omsk

No

US/Pacific-New

Yes

Asia/Oral

No

US/Samoa

Yes

Asia/Phnom_Penh

No

UTC

No

Asia/Pontianak

No

W-SU

Yes

Asia/Pyongyang

No

WET

Yes

See Also:

"Choosing a Time Zone File"

Obsolete Locale Data

This section contains information about obsolete linguistic sorts, character sets, languages, and territories. The obsolete linguistic sort, language, and territory definitions are still available. However, they are supported for backward compatibility only; they may be desupported in a future release. You can obtain a listing of the obsolete character sets, languages, territories, and linguistic sorts for the current database release by querying the V$NLS_VALID_VALUES view.

Obsolete Linguistic Sorts

Table A-18 contains linguistic sorts that have been desupported as of Oracle Database 10g.

Table A-18 Obsolete Linguistic Sorts

Obsolete Sort Name Replacement Sort

THAI_TELEPHONE

THAI_M

THAI_DICTIONARY

THAI_M

CANADIAN FRENCH

CANADIAN_M

JAPANESE

JAPANESE_M

Obsolete Territories

Table A-19 contains territories that have been desupported as of Oracle Database 10g.

Table A-19 Obsolete Territories

Obsolete Territory Name Replacement Territory

CIS

RUSSIA

MACEDONIA

FYR MACEDONIA

YUGOSLAVIA

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

CZECH REPUBLIC or SLOVAKIA

Obsolete Languages

Table A-20 contains languages that have been desupported in Oracle Database 10g.

Table A-20 Obsolete Languages

Obsolete Language Name Replacement Language

BENGALI

BANGLA

Obsolete Character Sets and Replacement Character Sets

Table A-21 lists the obsolete character sets. If you reference any of these character sets in your code, then replace them with the new character set.

Table A-21 Obsolete Character Sets and Replacements

Old Character Set Replacement Character Set

AL24UTFSS

UTF8, AL32UTF8

AR8ADOS710T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8ADOS720T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8APTEC715T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8ASMO708PLUS

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8HPARABIC8T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8MUSSAD768T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8NAFITHA711T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8NAFITHA721T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8SAKHR707T

AR8ISO8859P6, AR8MSWIN1256, and AL32UTF8

AR8MSAWIN

AR8MSWIN1256

AR8XBASIC

AR8EBCDIC420S

CL8EBCDIC875S

CL8EBCDIC875R

CL8MSWINDOW31

CL8MSWIN1251

EL8EBCDIC875S

EL8EBCDIC875R

JVMS

JA16VMS

JEUC

JA16EUC

SJIS

JA16SJIS

JDBCS

JA16DBCS

KSC5601

KO16KSC5601

KDBCS

KO16DBCS

CGB2312-80

ZHS16CGB231280

CNS 11643-86

ZHT32EUC

JA16EUCFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16. See Also: the Note in this section.

ZHS32EUCFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

ZHS16GBKFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

JA16DBCSFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

KO16DBCSFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

ZHS16DBCSFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

ZHS16CGB231280FIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

ZHT16DBCSFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

KO16KSC5601FIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

JA16SJISFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16. See Also: the Note in this section.

ZHT16BIG5FIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

ZHT32TRISFIXED

UTF8 and AL16UTF16

Note:

The character sets JA16EUCFIXED (1830) and JA16SJISFIXED (1832) are supported on the database client side as follows:

  • when specified in the NLS_NCHAR client environment variable,

  • in the ncharset (last) parameter of the OCIEnvNlsCreate() call,

  • or as a value of the OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_ID attribute of a bind or a define handle.

AL24UTFFSS Character Set Desupported

The Unicode Character Set AL24UTFFSS was desupported in Oracle9i. With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Database began offering the Unicode database character set AL32UTF8, which is based on Unicode 4.0, and UTF8, which is based on Unicode 3.0. These have been subsumed into Unicode 5.0.

The migration path for an existing AL24UTFFSS database is to upgrade to UTF8 prior to upgrading to Oracle Database 11g. As with all migrations to a new database character set, Oracle recommends that you use the Character Set Scanner for data analysis before attempting to migrate your existing database character set to UTF8.

Note:

AL24UTFFSS was introduced in Oracle Database version 7 as the Unicode character set to support the UTF-8 encoding scheme, which was based on the Unicode standard 1.1, and which is now obsolete.

See Also:

Chapter 12, "Character Set Scanner Utilities"

Updates to the Oracle Database Language and Territory Definition Files

Changes have been made to the content in some of the language and territory definition files in Oracle Database 11g. These updates are necessary to correct the legacy definitions that no longer meet the local conventions in some of the languages and territories that Oracle Database supports. These changes include modifications to the currency symbols, month names, and group separators. One example is the local currency symbol for Brazil. This was updated from Cr$ to R$ in Oracle Database 10g.

Please refer to the "Oracle Database Language and Territory Definition Changes" table documented in the $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/old/data_changes.html file for a detailed list of the changes.

Oracle Database 11g customers should review their existing application code to make sure that the correct cultural conventions, which were introduced and defined in Oracle Database 10g, are being used. For customers who may not be able to make the necessary code changes to support their applications, Oracle Database offers Oracle9i locale definition files with this release of Oracle Database.

To revert back to the Oracle9i language and territory behavior:

  1. Shutdown the database.

  2. Run the script cr9idata.pl from the $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/old directory.

  3. Set the ORA_NLS10 environment variable to the newly created $ORACLE_HOME/nls/data/9idata directory.

  4. Restart the database.

Steps 2 and 3 will need to be repeated for all Oracle Database 11g clients that need to revert back to the Oracle9i definition files.

Oracle strongly recommends that customers use Oracle Database 11g or Oracle Database 10g locale definition files. Oracle9i locale definition files will be desupported in a future release.