Re: Installing an app on a French configured server

Barry Deevey wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> There is a requirement to install our application at a site that will have
> both Oracle (8.1.7) & Unix (AIX 5.1) configured in the French language.
>
> Can anybody please advise me of anything that I need to be aware of in
> relation to the differences between an English & French configuration??
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Barry.

o Character sets (likely to be WE8ISO8859P15 in France - accents plus euro character)
o Beware of tests on dates, especially if the day matters o Subtle but annoying, numbers. The default decimal character is a comma in France, and you sometimes (although rarely) meet a dot as separator for thousands. Can be a big problem when loading data from external sources - or generating files to be loaded say into Excel.

And Oracle error messages in French are totally ununderstandable, even to the French.

HTH, Stephane Faroult
Oriole Software

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