Database applications

Database applications

Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.

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Software; Database applications

Provide a mechanism for communicating phonetic information along with the ideographic characters used by languages such as Japanese.

A 1993 ISO/IEC standard character set. It is a fixed-width, 16-bit Unicode character set. Each character occupies 16 bits of storage. The ISO Latin1 characters are the first 256 code points, so it ...

UCS-4

Software; Database applications

A fixed-width, 32-bit Unicode character set. Each character occupies 32 bits of storage. The UCS-2 characters are the first 65,536 code points in this standard, so it can be viewed as a 32-bit ...

Unicode database

Software; Database applications

A database whose database character set is UTF-8.

Unicode datatype

Software; Database applications

A SQL NCHAR datatype (NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, and NCLOB). You can store Unicode characters in columns of these datatypes even if the database character set is not Unicode.

Unrestricted multilingual support

Software; Database applications

The ability to use as many languages as desired. A universal character set, such as Unicode, helps to provide unrestricted multilingual support because it supports a very large character repertoire, ...