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Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide.
A symbol that represents an idea. Chinese is an example of an ideographic writing system.
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A family of 8-bit encoded character sets. The most common one is ISO 8859-1 (also known as ISO Latin1), and is used for Western European languages.
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A multilingual linguistic sort standard that is designed for almost all languages of the world.
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A universal character set standard that defines the characters of most major scripts used in the modern world. In 1993, ISO adopted Unicode version 1.1 as ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. ISO/IEC 10646 has two formats: UCS-2 is a 2-byte fixed-width format, and UCS-4 is a 4-byte fixed-width format. There are three levels of implementation, all relating to support for composite characters: Level 1 requires no composite character support. Level 2 requires support for specific scripts (including most of the Unicode scripts such as Arabic and Thai). Level 3 requires unrestricted support for composite characters in all languages.
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The 3-letter abbreviation used to denote a local currency, based on the ISO 4217 standard. For example, USD represents the United States dollar.
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The ISO 8859-1 character set standard. It is an 8-bit extension to ASCII that adds 128 characters that include the most common Latin characters used in Western Europe. The Oracle character set name is WE8ISO8859P1.
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Length semantics determines how you treat the length of a character string. The length can be treated as a sequence of characters or bytes.
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A ordering of strings based on requirements from a locale instead of the binary representation of the strings.
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A collection of information about the linguistic and cultural preferences from a particular region. Typically, a locale consists of language, territory, character set, linguistic, and calendar information defined in NLS data files.
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