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Oracle 10g Locale Availability in OGS

The number of the locales or languages that an application needs to support depends on the target user base. The Oracle Database 10g OGS Internet services returns to the application the following locale availability data:

• A list of the locales that are supported for a given application. This information is defined in the OGS application configuration file.
   

• A list of the Oracle languages, Oracle territories, Oracle linguistic sorts, and Oracle character sets based on the locales supported in the application.
   

• The user locale of the current request
   

• A list of the commonly used languages in a given territory based on the current user locale
   

• A list of the common territories that support a given language based on the current user locale
   

• A list of the commonly used character sets based on the language defined in the current user locale
   

• A list of the local time zones for a given territory defined in the current user locale

Using Java and OGS, an application can use locale information to generate a menu for users to select their preferred locale. The locale entries in the selection list will contain only the locales that are supported by the application, based on the returns from the OGS API. This provides the added benefit that the supported application locales can be increased or removed without having to change the application code, because they are defined in the configuration file and not in the application code itself.

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