About Globalization Support Features

Globalization support features enable you to develop multilingual applications that can be run simultaneously from anywhere in the world. An application can render the content of the user interface, and process data, using the native language and locale preferences of the user.

Note: In the past, Oracle called globalization support National Language Support (NLS), but NLS is actually a subset of globalization support. NLS is the ability to choose a national language and store data using a specific character set. NLS is implemented with NLS parameters.

This section contains:

About Language Support
About Territory Support
About Date and Time Formats
About Calendar Formats
About Numeric and Monetary Formats
About Linguistic Sorting and String Searching
About Length Semantics
About Unicode and SQL National Character Data Types

About Globalization Support Features

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