Oracle UTL_GDK Globalization Demos

Oracle UTL_GDK Version 11.2.0.3

General Information

Purpose

GDK stands for Globalization Developer's Kit. GDK is a set of services that can help monolingual application developer to create similar multilingual applications with minimual knowledge about internationalization issues. GDK includes two major components, internet globalization services and Oracle globalization services. GDK includes two major components, internet globalization services and Oracle globalization services. Internet global services can hide the complexity of globalization to support multi-user with different locale. Oracle globalization services provide developer a set of consistent, high performance and easy to use tools in middle-tier as database client.

AUTHID

DEFINER

Constants

Name	Data Type	Value
ORACLE_TO_IANA	PLS_INTEGER	1
IANA_TO_ORACLE	PLS_INTEGER	2
ORACLE_TO_ISO	PLS_INTEGER	3
ISO_TO_ORACLE	PLS_INTEGER	4
ORACLE_TO_ISO_A3	PLS_INTEGER	5
ISO_A3_TO_ORACLE	PLS_INTEGER	6

Data Types

Dependencies

DBMS_XDBT

UTL_GDK_LIB

First Available

9.2.0.1

Globalization Codes

Language	Abbreviation
AMERICAN	US
ARABIC	AR
BENGALI	BN
BRAZILIAN PORTUGESE	PTB
BULGARIAN	BG
CANADIAN FRENCH	FRC
CATALAN	CA
CROATIAN	HR
CZECH	CS
DANISH	DK
DUTCH	NL
EGYPTIAN	EG
ENGLISH	GB
ESTONIAN	ET
FINISH	SF
GERMAN	DE
HEBREW	HR
HUNGARIAN	HU
ISLANDIC	IS
POLISH	PL
SLOVAK	SK
THAI	TH
TURKISH	TR
UKRANIAN	UK
VIETNAMESE	VN

Security Model

Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC

Source

{ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/utlgdk.sql

Subprograms

Charset Map Function

utl_gdk.charset_map(charset IN VARCHAR2, flag IN BINARY_INTEGER) RETURN VARCHAR2;

utl_gdk.charset_map('WE8ISO8859P1', 1)
FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.charset_map('ISO-8859-1', 2)
FROM dual;

LANGUAGE_MAP

LanguageMap Function

utl_gdk.language_map(language IN VARCHAR2, flag IN BINARY_INTEGER) RETURN VARCHAR2;

SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('English', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('en', 4) FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('French', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('fr', 4) FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('German', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('de', 4) FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Japanese', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('ja', 4) FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Arabic') FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Finnish') FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Korean') FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Russian') FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Slovak') FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Spanish') FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.language_map('Thai') FROM dual;

TERRITORY_MAP

Territory Map Function

utl_gdk.territory_map(territory IN VARCHAR2, flag IN BINARY_INTEGER) RETURN VARCHAR2;

utl_gdk.territory_map('AMERICA', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('US', 4) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('AMERICA', 5) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('USA', 6) FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('SPAIN', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('ES', 4) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('SPAIN', 5) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('ESP', 6) FROM dual;

SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('GERMANY', 3) FROM dual;
SELECT utl_gdk.territory_map('DE', 4) FROM dual;

Character Set Related Queries

Character Sets

set serveroutput on

BEGIN
FOR i IN 1..401
LOOP
dbms_output.put_line(TO_CHAR(i) || ' ' || nls_charset_name(i));
END LOOP;
END;
/

Database Installed Language

SELECT name, value
FROM gv$parameter
WHERE name LIKE '%nls%';

col parameter format a40
col value format a40
set linesize 120

SELECT *
FROM gv_$nls_parameters;

SELECT *
FROM nls_database_parameters
WHERE parameter = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';

Valid NLS Parameters

col parameter format a20
col value format a20
col map format a40

SELECT parameter, value, DECODE(parameter, 'CHARACTERSET',
       utl_gdk.charset_map(VALUE), 'LANGUAGE',
       utl_gdk.language_map(VALUE), 'TERRITORY',
       utl_gdk.territory_map(VALUE), 'no function UTL_GDK.'||parameter||'_MAP') AS map
FROM v$nls_valid_values
ORDER BY 1,2;