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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 character set with an associated character encoding scheme. An encoded character set specifies the number (character code) that is assigned to each character.
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The numeric representation of a character in a character set. For example, the code point of A in the ASCII character set is 0x41. The encoded value of a character is also called the code point of a character.
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The process of making software suitable for different linguistic and cultural environments. globalisation should not be confused with localization, which is the process of preparing software for use in one specific locale.
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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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