Format

      SET  CHARACTER_SET character-set

1  –  Parameters

1.1  –  character-set

    Specifies the type of characters to be used during the current
    CDO session. Valid Character Set Names lists the valid character
    set names.

    Table 1-6 Valid Character Set Names

    Character     Character
    Set Type      Set         Description

    MCS           DEC_MCS     A set of international alphanumeric
                              characters

    Kanji+ASCII   DEC_KANJI   Japanese characters as defined by
                              the JIS X0208:1990 standard, Narrow
                              Katakana characters, as defined by
                              the JIS X0201:1976 standard, and ASCII
                              characters

2  –  Description

    Specifies the valid characters that you can use for an element
    name, the initial value field property, and in comments. You
    must set the character-set parameter to DEC_KANJI when you use
    Japanese with Oracle CDD/Repository.

    If you omit the SET CHARACTER SET command, Oracle CDD/Repository
    references the equivalence name of the CDD$CHARACTER_SET logical
    as the character set for the session. If this logical is not
    assigned, the default character set is DEC_MCS.

                               RESTRICTION

       DEC_KANJI is not available through the CDO editor.

    Oracle CDD/Repository accepts a maximum field and record name
    length of 31 octets (31 characters for ASCII/MCS characters; 15
    characters for Kanji and Narrow Katakana).

    Oracle CDD/Repository accepts the following characters as the
    field and record name when the character-set parameter is DEC_
    KANJI:

    o  Kanji (Japanese characters as defined by the JIS X0208:1990
       standard)

    o  Katakana (Japanese phonetic alphabet, Narrow Katakana, as
       defined by the JIS X0201:1976 standard)

    o  ASCII characters (A-Z, a-z, _, $)

3  –  Examples

  CDO>  SET CHARACTER_SET DEC_KANJI

      In this example, the character-set parameter is DEC_KANJI to
      support Japanese characters during the CDO session.