Stephen, Dick,
SQL keywords are not "localized", they stay "English", as they are described
in SQL standard (or Oracle's adaptation of it).
What changes, is Oracle messages (i.e. error messages) - based on the
language you select when installing Oracle software.
Choosing character set (when creati
Stephen,
I don't know about multi-byte character sets, but I know my French, German,
and Italian end users see English. We use the WE8SIO8859P1 character set all
over the place. Come to think of it, our Japan office sees keywords in English
as well, but then we don't have Kanji loaded for th