Database language and characterset settings

Hi to all.
In our company, we are trying to migrate oracle 11g r2 from Ms SQL Server 2000. Our old system has DB links with other MS SQL Servers.
Our new system will be working on 64 bit fujitsu machine with Oracle enterprise linux on it. The company is in Turkey by the way and and the collation of the server ( which has 32 bit processor ) that has to be linked to new oracle system is "Turkish_CI_AS". What would be the best choice for the region, language and the character set of the database or the server?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Gokhan

I would set the database character set to UTF8, which is a variable-length encoding mechanism. It uses between 1 and 4 bytes to represent any one of the million-plus Unicode characters. It has at least two characteristics that are very appealing: it is completely backward-compatible with ASCII formatted files and it typically results in the smallest encoded string.
You can use ALTER DATABASE SET CHARACTERSET UTF8 or the CSALTER script to convert your current database, but only provided your current character set is a strict subset of UTF-8, otherwise data corruption can occur. You set the database character set when you create the database. In most cases, you need to do a full export/import to properly convert all data to the new character set.
NLS_LANG=language_territory.charset. For Turkish I would suggest the following NLS_LANG environment variable:
TURKISH_TURKEY.UTF8
Edited by: Markus Waldorf on Aug 3, 2010 1:35 AM
there is also a forum for globalisation support:
Globalization Support

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