Cultural-dependent design

Different countries might have different standards, which you must consider when developing an NLS-enabled application. This culturally sensitive information must be placed outside the program the same way as the textual data is handled.

Many languages have characters (such as common-usage vowels essential to the correct spelling of a word) outside of the A-Z alphabet that must be considered for collating purposes.

Through system values, the system supplies linguistic support, cultural support, and the ordering of data.