NLS_LANG: What are the default charactersets for the different languages settable in NLS_LANG
Charset
Specifies
the character set used by the client application (normally the Oracle
character set that corresponds to the user's terminal character set or
the OS character set). Each supported character set has a unique
acronym, for example,
US7ASCII
,
WE8ISO8859P1
,
WE8DEC
,
WE8MSWIN1252
, or
JA16EUC
. Each language has a default character set associated with it.
It is also true that each territory has a default language. Where is the table of defaults?