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Overview of Globalization Support■■■■■■■■The database enables you to store, process, and retrieve data in native languages.Through the use of Unicode databases and data types, the Oracle databasesupports most contemporary languages.See "Setting NLS Parameters".Territory SupportThe database supports cultural conventions that are specific to geographicallocations. The default local time format, date format, and numeric and monetaryconventions depend on the local territory setting.See "Language and Territory Parameters".Date and Time FormatsDifferent conventions for displaying the hour, day, month, and year can behandled in local formats. Time zones and daylight saving support are alsoavailable.See "Date and Time Parameters".Monetary and Numeric FormatsCurrency, credit, debit symbols, and numbers can be represented in local formats.See "Monetary Parameters" and "Numeric and List Parameters" on page 11-11.Calendars FeatureOracle supports seven different calendar systems in use around the world:Gregorian, Japanese Imperial, ROC Official (Republic of China), Thai Buddha,Persian, English Hijrah, and Arabic Hijrah.See "Calendar Definitions".Linguistic SortingOracle provides linguistic definitions for culturally accurate sorting and caseconversion.See "Linguistic Sorting and Searching".Character Set SupportOracle supports a large number of single-byte, multibyte, and fixed-widthencoding schemes that are based on national, international, and vendor-specificstandards.Character SemanticsOracle provides character semantics. It is useful for defining the storagerequirements for multibyte strings of varying widths in terms of characters insteadof bytes.See "Length Semantics".Unicode SupportUnicode is a universal encoded character set that enables you to store informationin any language, using a single character set. Oracle Database provides productssuch as SQL and PL/SQL for inserting and retrieving Unicode data.See "SQL and PL/SQL Programming with Unicode".11-2 SQL Developer Online Help