List of Figures

1-1 Loading Locale-Specific Data to the Database

2-1 ISO 8859-1 8-Bit Encoding Scheme

2-2 Bytes of Storage for Different Kinds of Characters

2-3 Monolingual Database Scenario

2-4 Multitier Monolingual Database Scenario

2-5 Character Set Conversion

2-6 Data Loss During Character Conversion

2-7 Restricted Multilingual Support

2-8 Unrestricted Multilingual Support Scenario in a Client/Server Configuration

2-9 Multitier Unrestricted Multilingual Support Scenario in a Multitier Configuration

5-1 Character String

6-1 UTF-16, UTF-8, and UCS-2 Encoding Examples

7-1 Oracle Database Access Products

7-2 Character Integrity

8-1 Monolingual Internet Application Architecture

8-2 Multilingual Internet Application Architecture

8-3 GDK Components

8-4 Original HelloWorld Web Page

8-5 HelloWorld Localized for the zh-CN Locale

8-6 GDK Application Framework for J2EE

8-7 Oracle Character Set Plug-In

11-1 Replacement Characters in Character Set Conversion

11-2 Incorrect Character Set Replacement

11-3 Mixed Character Sets

13-1 Oracle Locale Builder Utility

13-2 Existing Definitions Dialog Box

13-3 Session Log Dialog Box

13-4 Previewing the NLT File

13-5 Open File Dialog Box

13-6 Language General Information

13-7 Month Names Tab Page

13-8 Day Names Tab Page

13-9 Common Info Tab Page

13-10 General Tab Page for Territories

13-11 Choosing Calendar Formats

13-12 Choosing Date and Time Formats

13-13 Choosing Number Formats

13-14 Choosing Currency Formats

13-15 Common Info Tab Page

13-16 General Tab Page for Character Sets

13-17 Choosing US7ASCII in the Existing Definitions Dialog Box

13-18 General Tab Page When US7ASCII Has Been Chosen

13-19 Character Data Mapping Tab Page for US7ASCII

13-20 US7ASCII Code Chart

13-21 Japanese Kanji Character

13-22 General Tab Page for MYCHARSET

13-23 Type Specification Tab Page

13-24 Importing User-Defined Character Data

13-25 New Characters in the Character Set

13-26 General Tab Page for Collation

13-27 Unicode Collation Sequence Tab Page

13-28 Paste Node Dialog Box

13-29 Unicode Collation Sequence After Modification

13-30 Canonical Rules Dialog Box

13-31 Changing the Sort Order for All Characters with the Same Diacritic

13-32 The New Sort Order for Characters with the Same Diacritic

13-33 Changing the Sort Order of One Character with a Diacritic

13-34 New Sort Order After Changing a Single Character

13-35 Location Dialog Box

13-36 NLB Generation Success Dialog Box

A-1 Japanese Imperial Example