How to View Your Existing Sort Order and Character Sets

Enter the following command to view the character sets and sort orders that are currently available in your Adaptive Server:

1> select id, csid, name, description from master..syscharsets
2> go

In the output:

For example:

1> select id, csid, name, description from master..syscharsets
2> go

id  csid   name       description
--- ----  ----------  --------------------------------------------
 0  0     ascii_8     ASCII-8 - 7-bit ASCII, with implementation-
   defined characters for values 128-255.
 1  0     iso_1       ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - Western European 
   8-bit character set.
50  1     bin_iso_1   Binary sort order for the ISO 8859/1 
   character set (iso_1). 

In the example: