Multilingual characters

hi friends..
How can i make my text box in my xsl sheet accept multiligual characters like germany,japanese,chinese .......and there by store it in oracle database.
Please point me out to any site which gives details about the same.
thanks
nadia

Presumably you mean, "how can my HTML text box that I'm generating using an XSLT Stylesheet accept foreign characters?"
Just make sure you deliver the page with the write encoding. The browser should auto-detect the encoding and allow you to enter the characters you want. At least IE5 does not. Not sure about netscape.

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i'm using JDK 1.3 on windows 2000 sp2.
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(1) Since the data is already in Unicode, just get a font that can display all unicode characters. Arial Unicode MS is one such font.
(2) Not without some processing.

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hi
please check out the following link.
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sarah

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I want to insert multilingual characters in an Oracle XE 10g Db. To do that i connected as sys and issued the command
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System altered
SQL>
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3 /
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Why does this problem persist...?????Because your tables are already created with BYTE semantics i.e. your length of column is 14 bytes but your text (logistics? ;)) you'd like to insert is 10 symbols but 20 bytes, so you cannot do that. As previous poster suggested modify column to 14 char. And your alter system will take care of all your next DDLs but it is not modifying already existing tables and BTW compiled programm units as well.
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu

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including sqlplus
check
[NLS_LANG FAQ|http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/globalization/htdocs/nls_lang%20faq.htm]
C:\Documents and Settings\>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon Sep 22 22:07:28 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
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UTF8 - Urgent

Hi All,
My database character set is WE8ISO8859P1.
Language : American
Territory : America.
Now, I tried converting client NLS_LANG in the registry(we use
windows 95). I gave French_France.UTF8.
Then I issued the query
select userenv('language') from dual;
FRENCH_FRANCE.WE8ISO8859P1
I got the above output. How do I make my client characterset to
UTF8.
One of the report module needs to support multilingual.
So, I want to store and retrieve data of other languagues.
How do I achieve this?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Vijay,
To support Multilingual characters you need your data in UTF8
(it depends on the languages you wish to support, of course).
Check out the FAQ at
http://technet.oracle.com/products/oracle8i/htdocs/faq_combined.h
tm
Now, I tried converting client NLS_LANG in the registry(we use
windows 95). I gave French_France.UTF8.
Then I issued the query
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NLS_LANG.
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Hi ,
I am having a multilingual table in SQL server 2008 , the table has two columns ID and Text
The text column has English, Chinese and other language texts.
I need a resultset grouped by the languages and count of id like
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Chinese 10
other languages 3
Is this possible? Can you please help me?

Good day SqlServer_learn
I have a saying that I always uses: anything is possible in developing, if you have the appropriate resources (change the existing solution could be part of the way to solve...)
regarding your question, there is simple solution, but for most cases, I highly recommend to change the table structure and add a column for the culture of the text (like: en-us for english,
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GO
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from _ArielyAccessoriesDatabase.dbo.ArielyNumbers
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GO
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insert UnicodeMapping (Charecter, UnicodeNum, CultureN, CollateN)
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from _ArielyAccessoriesDatabase.dbo.ArielyNumbers
where
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or n between 65 and 90 -- En
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GO
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single character is, using the our UnicodeMapping.
You can check this thread to see an implementation of this idea: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/ccc1d16f-926f-46c8-8579-b2eecf661e7c/sort-miultiple-language-data-in-sql-serevr-by-collation?forum=transactsql
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the UnicodeMapping and return it.
Ronen Ariely
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Non-ASCII Characters in QuickLook

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Issue in Inserting Greek characters in Oracle DB

We are facing the following issue in our project. Need urgent help.
We have a multilingual string(message with Greek characters) coming in from KSD gateway. This is to be processed by MHL(message handling layer- which validates and converts the incoming message into SQL statements and vice versa). Once the validation and conversion of incoming message is completed and then SQL statement is prepared, it inserts this data in the Oracle database. We are using OCI interface for database communication. Client program is written in C language. While inserting data in Oracle DB, we are getting exception as explained below.
EventVwr Output:
SCREEN 1:
ODI Oracle error report has been issued
ODI Error: DbConnId 0 - Oracle error msg:
ORA-00917: missing comma
SqlStatement='INSERT INTO M_ENS_REJ_FUN_ERR (MSG_NUM,FUN_ERR_SEQ,ERR_TYPE,ERR_POINT,ERR_REASON,ORIG_ATTR_VAL) VALUES (17549,1,'1','ÎÎ¬Î½ Î¬Î½Î±Ï Î±ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¿Î»Î¬Î±Ï ÎµÎ¯Î½Î±Î¹ Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¼Î¬Î½Î¿Ï Î³Î¹Î± ÏÎ»Î± ÏÎ± ÎµÎ¯Î´Î• ÏÏÏÎµ ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹ Î½Î± Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¸ÎµÎ¯ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ Î²Î±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÎ½ ÏÏÎ¿Î¹ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÎ½ ÎµÎ¹Î´Î¬Î»ÏÏ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ ÎµÎ¯Î´Î¿ÏÏ ÏÏÏÎ','1','')'
SCREEN 2:
Error executing OCI Statement
Failed to execute PL/SQL command INSERT INTO M_ENS_REJ_FUN_ERR (MSG_NUM,FUN_ERR_SEQ,ERR_TYPE,ERR_POINT,ERR_REASON,ORIG_ATTR_VAL) VALUES (17549,1,'1','ÎÎ¬Î½ Î¬Î½Î±Ï Î±ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¿Î»Î¬Î±Ï ÎµÎ¯Î½Î±Î¹ Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¼Î¬Î½Î¿Ï Î³Î¹Î± ÏÎ»Î± ÏÎ± ÎµÎ¯Î´Î• ÏÏÏÎµ ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹ Î½Î± Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¸ÎµÎ¯ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ Î²Î±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÎ½ ÏÏÎ¿Î¹ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÎ½ ÎµÎ¹Î´Î¬Î»ÏÏ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ ÎµÎ¯Î´Î¿ÏÏ ÏÏÏÎ','1','') on DbConnId 0 file ..\MHL - source\MhlOdi.c line 803
SCREEN 3
Inbound thread ODI update to table field failed
SQL insert failed on DbConnId 0
INSERT INTO M_ENS_REJ_FUN_ERR (MSG_NUM,FUN_ERR_SEQ,ERR_TYPE,ERR_POINT,ERR_REASON,ORIG_ATTR_VAL) VALUES (17549,1,'1','ÎÎ¬Î½ Î¬Î½Î±Ï Î±ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¿Î»Î¬Î±Ï ÎµÎ¯Î½Î±Î¹ Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¼Î¬Î½Î¿Ï Î³Î¹Î± ÏÎ»Î± ÏÎ± ÎµÎ¯Î´Î• ÏÏÏÎµ ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹ Î½Î± Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¸ÎµÎ¯ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ Î²Î±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÎ½ ÏÏÎ¿Î¹ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÎ½ ÎµÎ¹Î´Î¬Î»ÏÏ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ ÎµÎ¯Î´Î¿ÏÏ ÏÏÏÎ','1','')
in file ..\MHL - source\MhlInBound.c line 2342
We have looked into the trace file generated by MHL and found that the MHL is unable to process Greek characters and hence is unable to generate a valid SQL statement.
Trace File Output:
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228>> ODIExecNonQuerySqlStatement
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 SqlStatement=INSERT INTO M_ENS_REJ_FUN_ERR (MSG_NUM,FUN_ERR_SEQ,ERR_TYPE,ERR_POINT,ERR_REASON,ORIG_ATTR_VAL) VALUES (18175,1,'1','ÎÎ¬Î½ Î¬Î½Î±Ï Î±ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¿Î»Î¬Î±Ï ÎµÎ¯Î½Î±Î¹ Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¼Î¬Î½Î¿Ï Î³Î¹Î± ÏÎ»Î± ÏÎ± ÎµÎ¯Î´Î• ÏÏÏÎµ ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹ Î½Î± Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¸ÎµÎ¯ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ Î²Î±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÎ½ ÏÏÎ¿Î¹ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÎ½ ÎµÎ¹Î´Î¬Î»ÏÏ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ ÎµÎ¯Î´Î¿ÏÏ ÏÏÏÎ','1','')
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 In OCIStmtExecute
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 SQL STMTExecute=
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228>> ODICheckError
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 Non-Fatal Database Error - msg: ORA-00917: missing comma
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09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228<< ODICheckError
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228>> ODIOracleErrorReport
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228<< ODIOracleErrorReport
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09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228<< ODIExecNonQuerySqlStatement
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 Error: SQL insert failed on DbConnId 0
INSERT INTO M_ENS_REJ_FUN_ERR (MSG_NUM,FUN_ERR_SEQ,ERR_TYPE,ERR_POINT,ERR_REASON,ORIG_ATTR_VAL) VALUES (18175,1,'1','ÎÎ¬Î½ Î¬Î½Î±Ï Î±ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¿Î»Î¬Î±Ï ÎµÎ¯Î½Î±Î¹ Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¼Î¬Î½Î¿Ï Î³Î¹Î± ÏÎ»Î± ÏÎ± ÎµÎ¯Î´Î• ÏÏÏÎµ ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹ Î½Î± Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¸ÎµÎ¯ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ Î²Î±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÎ½ ÏÏÎ¿Î¹ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÎ½ ÎµÎ¹Î´Î¬Î»ÏÏ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ ÎµÎ¯Î´Î¿ÏÏ ÏÏÏÎ','1','')
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 SQLstatements---------->=INSERT INTO M_ENS_REJ_FUN_ERR (MSG_NUM,FUN_ERR_SEQ,ERR_TYPE,ERR_POINT,ERR_REASON,ORIG_ATTR_VAL) VALUES (18175,1,'1','ÎÎ¬Î½ Î¬Î½Î±Ï Î±ÏÎ¿ÏÏÎ¿Î»Î¬Î±Ï ÎµÎ¯Î½Î±Î¹ Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¼Î¬Î½Î¿Ï Î³Î¹Î± ÏÎ»Î± ÏÎ± ÎµÎ¯Î´Î• ÏÏÏÎµ ÏÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹ Î½Î± Î´Î•Î»ÏÎ¸ÎµÎ¯ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ Î²Î±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÎ½ ÏÏÎ¿Î¹ÏÎµÎ¯ÏÎ½ ÎµÎ¹Î´Î¬Î»ÏÏ ÏÎµ ÎµÏÎ¯ÏÎµÎ´Î¿ ÎµÎ¯Î´Î¿ÏÏ ÏÏÏÎ','1','')09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228 Inbound thread - attempting rollback of 1 SQL insert statements on DbConnId 0
09/02/2012 10:22:54.437 T2228>> ODIRollback
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Globalization forum?
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It works for SQL Developer, which does not depend on NLS_LANG, so I suspect a problem with your NLS settings.

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Hello all
I am starting to develop a multilingual application which will include both english and thai.
The problem Im having is that the browser displays only garbage when Im fetching a report on a table that includes Thai characters in a column.
What Im seeing is something like this:
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Hi Stefan,
Sorry to interrupt you in this thread, Me too having the saming requirement of displaying my apex application in both Arabic and English.
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Also sorry my post couldnt help your question.
Thanks in advance.
Brgds,
Mini

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In the browser, my charset encoding is UTF8, then my database charset is
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