Globalization Support Features

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Oracle Database XE standard features include:

• Language support

  This feature enables you to store, process, and retrieve data in native languages. Through the use of Unicode databases and datatypes, Oracle Database XE supports most contemporary languages.

  See "Setting NLS Parameters".

• Territory support

  This feature supports cultural conventions that are specific to geographical locations. The default local time format, date format, numeric conventions, and monetary conventions depend on the local territory setting.

  See "Language and Territory Parameters".

• Date and time formats

  This feature supports local formats for displaying the hour, day, month, and year. Time zones and daylight saving support are also available.

  See "Date and Time Parameters".

• Monetary and numeric formats

  This feature supports local formats for representing currency, credit, debit symbols, and numbers.

  See "Monetary Parameters" and "Numeric and List Parameters".

• Calendars feature

  This feature supports seven different calendar systems in use around the world: Gregorian, Japanese Imperial, ROC Official (Republic of China), Thai Buddha, Persian, English Hijrah, and Arabic Hijrah.

  See "Calendar Definitions".

• Linguistic sorting

  This feature supports linguistic definitions for culturally accurate sorting and case conversion.

  See "Linguistic Sorting and Searching".

• Character set support

  This feature supports a large number of single-byte, multi-byte, and fixed-width encoding schemes that are based on national, international, and vendor-specific standards.

  See Oracle Database Express Edition Installation Guide for Linux or Oracle Database Express Edition Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows for a listing of the character sets supported by Oracle Database XE.

• Character semantics

  This feature supports character semantics. It is useful for defining the storage requirements for multi-byte strings of varying widths in terms of characters instead of bytes.

  See "Length Semantics".

• Unicode support

  This features supports Unicode, which is a universal encoded character set that enables you to store information in any language, using a single character set. Oracle Database Express Edition provides products such as SQL and PL/SQL for inserting and retrieving Unicode data.

  See "SQL and PL/SQL Programming with Unicode".