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An Oracle sort that has two levels of comparison for strings. Most European languages can be sorted with a monolingual sort, but it is inadequate for Asian languages.
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Two or more bytes. When character codes are assigned to all characters in a specific language or a group of languages, one byte (8 bits) can represent 256 different characters. Two bytes (16 bits) can represent up to 65,536 different characters. Two bytes are not enough to represent all the characters for many languages. Some characters require 3 or 4 bytes. One example is the UTF8 Unicode encoding. In UTF8, there are many 2-byte and 3-byte characters. Another example is Traditional Chinese, used in Taiwan. It has more than 80,000 characters. Some character encoding schemes that are used in Taiwan use 4 bytes to encode characters.
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A character whose character code consists of two or more bytes under a certain character encoding scheme. Note that the same character may have different character codes under different encoding schemes. Oracle cannot tell whether a character is a multibyte character without knowing which character encoding scheme is being used. For example, Japanese Hankaku-Katakana (half-width Katakana) characters are one byte in the JA16SJIS encoded character set, two bytes in JA16EUC, and three bytes in UTF8.
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A character string that consists of one of the following: No characters (called a null string) One or more single-byte characters A mixture of one or more single-byte characters and one or more multibyte characters
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An Oracle sort that uses evaluates strings on three levels. Asian languages require a multilingual linguistic sort even if data exists in only one language. Multilingual linguistic sorts are also used when data exists in several languages.
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An alternate character set from the database character set that can be specified for NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, and NCLOB columns. National character sets are in Unicode only.
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Binary files used by the Locale Builder to define locale-specific data. They define all of the locale definitions that are shipped with a specific release of the Oracle database server. You can create user-defined NLB files with Oracle Locale Builder.
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National Language Support. NLS allows users to interact with the database in their native languages. It also allows applications to run in different linguistic and cultural environments. The term is somewhat obsolete because Oracle supports global users at one time.
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National Language Support Runtime Library. This library is responsible for providing locale-independent algorithms for internationalization. The locale-specific information (that is, NLSDATA) is read by the NLSRTL library during run-time.
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