Ive just found in the oracle nls faq the following. Understanding oracle nls mcgill administrative systems. It supports all character sets and language settings available in the oracle database. For a short overview, it uses the following format. This parameter sets the language and territory used by the application and the oracle database server. For example, on one of my test machines with a chinese version of windows 2008, the culture name is zhcn, which in oracle s terms translates to simplified chinese language and china countryregion. Net application, the current locale can be found by looking at the currentculture.
Oracles list of supported languagesregions can be found here in its. Specifying an nls parameter for an sql function means that any user session nls parameters or the lack of will not affect evaluation of the function. In the control panel, select regional and language options. I want to use microsoft access througth microsoft odbc for oracle to query database. The default is based on your regional options in the control panel. Configurando national language support nls no oracle blog. For example, sqlplus started by the unix user which owns oracle software, from.
Nls defaults for language and territory blog dbi services. For an enhancement request you should use oracle metalink if you have a support contract. Run oracle universal installer by following the instructions in installing the oracle database client software. This parameter sets the language and territory used by the client application and the database server. It also sets the client s character set, which is the character set for data entered or displayed by a client program. From the start menu, select settings, then control panel. The problem is that the registry path changes from version to version, browsing though that bunch of registry keys is definitly not a good idea. Oracle was installed with default settings, and do not think. For windows it has to be set in registry or it can be set locally also. For reference, ive listed the defaults in this post. Instant client installation for microsoft windows 64bit.
It is also worth bearing in mind that the new database characterset default in oracle 12. Ask tom differrent character set and nls oracle ask tom. I dont think there will be a sql query you can run to give the current setting because afaik the server is not aware of what translation is done client side, so any command to show the current setting will have to be native to the client i used sql developer for the above. See the instant client home page for more information about instant client packages. Change sql developers nls language settings to us for. This feature can be important for sql statements that contain numbers and dates as string literals. Client server version interoperability is detailed in doc id 207303. You must then bounce the database for the change to take effect. Many times, when you have an oracle application and you have to support special characters like o,a,u,e,e or currency symbols e. Setting language and locale preferences for client connections. Sqlplus instant client can be installed in two ways. It sets the language, territory and also the character set of your client.
Navigate to control panel system and click the advanced tab. If the os says the variable is not set it means that it is not set. For example, on an english windows client, the code page is 1252. The national language support nls api reference lists all the supported locales on windows. Its possible to leave the regioncountry portion blank, in which case a default matching the language would be chosen by oracle. Configurando national language support nls no oracle. Oracle character sets supported in amazon rds amazon. This is because the user interface of win32 is not utf8, therefore the client program have to perform explicit conversions between utf8 used on oracle side and. For example, applications using oracle call interface 19 can connect to oracle database 11. Download the packages from the oracle technology network otn copy the same files that are in the packages from an oracle database 10 g client administrator installation both the sqlplus and oci packages must be from the same oracle database version, for example, 10. Funnily enough, when i restarted the server, the settings went back to normal. Oracles national language support nls architecture allows you to store.
Us7ascii is the default for all oracle clients including the windows full client. On the server, each session started on behalf of a client may run in the same or. Instant client downloads for microsoft windows x64 64bit see the instant client home page for more information about instant client the installation instructions are at the foot of the page oracle clienttooracle database version interoperability is detailed in doc id 207303. Sqlplus instant client oracle software downloads oracle. Instant client for microsoft windows x64 64bit oracle. To help with mapping the languageregion from microsoft to oracle here are two references 1. Change the language in which your operating system is running.