Re: Cyrillic character set

On Jan 31, 8:56 am, paul..._at_compuserve.com wrote:
> On Jan 23, 8:00 pm, athr..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> > currently i am using the NLS_LANG charcater set value as
> > "_.WE8ISO8859P1". i would like to know if it support the Cyrillic
> > character set.
>
> No, it does not.
>
> Cyrillic character set has all ASCII symbols (including English
> alphabet), so if you don't have say German or French data, you can use
> one of these Cyrillic encoding in Oracle itlself (you must do it) and
> NLS_LANG
>
> 1) Under Windows: Oracle itself - WE8MSWIN1251
> NLS_LANG, for example,
> Russian.Russia.WE8MSWIN1251
>
> 2) Under Unix: WE8ISO8859P5
> NLS_LANG, for example,
> Russian.Russia.WE8ISO8859P5
>
> --
> Regards,
> Paul Gorodyansky
> "Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
> http://RusWin.net
> Russian On-screen Keyboard:http://Kbd.RusWin.net

Couple of corrections are due:

Russian.Russia.WE8MSWIN1251 should actually be Russian_Russia.CL8MSWIN1251. Same is true for the Unix version except charset name as it's correct this time. Russian_CIS can also be used as Language_Territory.

Regards,

    Vladimir M. Zakharychev
    N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm)     http://www.dynamicpsp.com Received on Wed Jan 31 2007 - 00:24:23 CST