Re: Cyrillic character set

On Jan 30, 10:24 pm, "Vladimir M. Zakharychev" <vladimir.zakharyc..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 8:56 am, paul..._at_compuserve.com wrote:
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> > On Jan 23, 8:00 pm, athr..._at_gmail.com wrote:
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> > > currently i am using the NLS_LANG charcater set value as
> > > "_.WE8ISO8859P1". i would like to know if it support the Cyrillic
> > > character set.
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> > No, it does not.
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> > 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
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> > 1) Under Windows: Oracle itself - WE8MSWIN1251
> > NLS_LANG, for example,
> > Russian.Russia.WE8MSWIN1251
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> > 2) Under Unix: WE8ISO8859P5
> > NLS_LANG, for example,
> > Russian.Russia.WE8ISO8859P5
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> > --
> > Regards,
> > Paul Gorodyansky
> > "Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
> > http://RusWin.net
> > Russian On-screen Keyboard:http://Kbd.RusWin.net
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> Couple of corrections are due:
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> Russian.Russia.WE8MSWIN1251 should actually be
> Russian_Russia.CL8MSWIN1251.
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Thanks! It's 2nd time I made such mistake - while taking WE8ISO... I foget replace "WE" which is "Western European character set" :) while it has to be "CL" ("Cyrillic character set").

> Same is true for the Unix version except
> charset name as it's correct this time.

So under Unix it's still "WE" and not "CL"?

> Russian_CIS can also be used as Language_Territory.

O, thanks.

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Regards,
Paul