Re: Cyrillic character set

On Jan 31, 10:16 pm, paul..._at_compuserve.com wrote:
> On Jan 30, 10:24 pm, "Vladimir M. Zakharychev"
>
>
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> <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
>
> > Couple of corrections are due:
>
> > Russian.Russia.WE8MSWIN1251 should actually be
> > Russian_Russia.CL8MSWIN1251.
>
> 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.
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> So under Unix it's still "WE" and not "CL"?
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> > Russian_CIS can also be used as Language_Territory.
>
> O, thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Paul

I meant that WE8ISO8859P5 is correct charset name. One can try to use CL8MSWIN1251 either, but I am not sure every Unix out there supports this code page... :)

Regards,

    Vladimir M. Zakharychev
    N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm)     http://www.dynamicpsp.com Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 01:49:12 CST