Oracle8(TM) Enterprise Edition Getting Started for Windows NT Release 8.0.3 A53722-01 |
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This appendix describes National Language Support (NLS).
Specific topics discussed are:
Oracle8 Enterprise Edition for Windows NT provides NLS that enables users to interact with the database in their selected language. When you install Oracle8 Enterprise Edition for Windows NT, you select a language for database messages. Oracle Installer supplies a value for the NLS_LANG parameter based on the language selected.
The NLS_LANG parameter uses the following format:
NLS_LANG = LANGUAGE_TERRITORY.CHARACTER_SET
where:
The default language at installation is American English. If you accept the default language, the following value is supplied for the NLS_LANG parameter:
AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
The NLS_LANG parameter is stored in the registry under \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\NLS_LANG.
Additional Information:
See Oracle8 Server Reference for information on the NLS_LANG parameter and NLS initialization parameters. |
The following table lists the default NLS_LANG values if you select any of these languages during installation of Oracle8 Enterprise Edition for Windows NT.
To install an additional language:
This method keeps any language support that was previously installed and adds the new language.