Oracle NLS support thru JDBC

[Chinmay Bajikar]

Hi,
I would like to know something about Oracle National Language Support.
Does this mean that for this code snippet,
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Float f = new Float("123.23");
preparedStatement.setFloat(1,f);
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wont work on Oracle Server In France,
And it would require,
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float f = Float.parseFloat("123.34");
Locale l = Locale.FRENCH;
DecimalFormat f1 = (DecimalFormat)NumberFormat.getInstance(l);
String s = f1.format(f).toString();
preparedStatement.setString(1,s);
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I am really clueless about this whole thing....
Gimmie some directions as to where should i look.
Thanks,
Chinmay