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Oracle9i Application Server Globalization Support Guide
Release 2 (9.0.2)

Part Number A92110-02
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Glossary

character set

Defines the binary values that are associated with the characters that make up a language. For example, you can use the ISO-8859-1 character set to encode most Western European languages.

database access descriptor (DAD)

Describes the connect string and Oracle parameters of a target database to which an Oracle HTTP Server mod_plsql module connects.

encoding

The character set used in a particular programming environment for the locale to which an Internet application is serving. See page encoding, character set.

locale

Refers to a language and the region (territory) in which the language is spoken. Information about the region includes formats for dates and currency, for example.

page encoding

The character set an HTML page uses for the locale to which an Internet application is serving.

Unicode

A universal character set that defines binary values for characters in almost all languages. Unicode characters can be encoded in 1 to 4 bytes in the UTF-8 character set, in 2 to 4 bytes in the UTF-16 character set, and in 4 bytes in the UTF-32 character set.


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