Globalization Support Features Globalization Support ensures that database utilities and error messages, sort order, date, time, monetary, numeric, and calendar conventions automatically adapt to the native language. Oracle currently supports 57 languages, 88 territories, 84 linguistic sorts (71 monolingual and 13 multilingual), and 235 encoded character sets. The language-dependent operations are controlled by a number of parameters and environment variables on both the client and the server sides. The server and the client may run in the same or different locations. When the client and the server use different character sets, the Oracle server handles character set conversion automatically
