Changes in This Release for Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide

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Changes in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)

Changes in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)

The following are changes in Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1).

New Features

Support for Unicode 6.2, a major version of the Unicode Standard that supersedes all previous versions of the standard.
Support for new locales.

See Appendix A, "Locale Data".
Support for the Unicode Collation Algorithm

See Chapter 5, "Linguistic Sorting and Matching".
The Database Migration Assistant for Unicode (DMU)

An intuitive and user-friendly GUI product that helps you streamline the migration process through an interface that minimizes the manual workload and ensures that the migration tasks are carried out correctly and efficiently. It replaces the CSSCAN and CSALTER utilities as the supported method for migrating databases to Unicode.

See "Migrating Character Data Using the Database Migration Assistant for Unicode" for more details and Oracle Database Migration Assistant for Unicode Guide for more details.

Desupported Features

Some features previously described in this document (the CSSCAN and CSALTER utilities) are desupported in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1). See Oracle Database Upgrade Guide for a list of desupported features.