Supported character sets

The following language, scripts and character sets are supported by the Cluster Edition:

The tables define each character set.

See “Character set conversion”.

Table 17-1 lists the Arabic character set:

Table 17-1: Arabic character sets

Character set

Description

cp864

PC Arabic

cp1256

Microsoft Windows Arabic

iso88596

ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic

Table 17-2 lists the Baltic character set:

Table 17-2: Baltic character sets

Character set

Description

cp1257

Microsoft Windows Baltic

Table 17-3 lists the simplified Chinese character set:

Table 17-3: Simplified Chinese character sets

Character set

Description

eucgb

EUC GB encoding = Simplified Chinese character sets

cp936

Microsoft Simplified Chinese character sets

gb18030

PRC 18030 standard

Table 17-4 lists the traditional Chinese character set:

Table 17-4: Traditional Chinese character set

Character set

Description

cp950

PC (Microsoft) Traditional Chinese

euccns

EUC CNS encoding = Traditional Chinese with extensions

big5

Big 5 Traditional Chinese

big5hk

Big 5 with HKSCS extensions

Table 17-5 lists the Cyrillic character set:

Table 17-5: Cyrillic character sets

Character set

Description

cp855

IBM PC Cyrillic

cp866

PC Russian

cp1251

Microsoft Windows 3.1 Cyrillic

iso88595

ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic

koi8

KOI-8 Cyrillic

mac_cyr

Macintosh Cyrillic

Table 17-6 lists the Eastern European character set:

Table 17-6: Eastern European character sets

Character set

Description

cp852

PC Eastern Europe

cp1250

Microsoft Windows 3.1 Eastern European

iso88592

ISO 8859-2 Latin-2

Table 17-7 lists the Greek character set:

Table 17-7: Greek character sets

Character set

Description

cp869

IBM PC Greek

cp1253

MS Windows Greek

greek8

HP GREEK8

iso88597

ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek

macgrk2

Macintosh Greek

Table 17-8 lists the Hebrew character set:

Table 17-8: Hebrew character sets

Character set

Description

cp1255

Microsoft Windows Hebrew

iso88598

ISO 8859-8 Hebrew

Table 17-9 lists the Japanese character set:

Table 17-9: Japanese character sets

Character set

Description

cp932

IBM J-DBCS:CP897 + CP301 (Shift-JIS)

eucjis

EUC-JIS encoding

sjis

Shift-JIS (no extensions)

deckanji

DEC Kanji

Table 17-10 lists the Korean character set:

Table 17-10: Korean character sets

Character set

Description

eucksc

EUC KSC Korean encoding = CP949

cp949

Ms Windows Korean

Table 17-11 lists the Thai character set:

Table 17-11: Thai client character sets

Character set

Description

tis620

TIS-620 Thai standard

cp874

Microsoft Windows Thai

Table 17-12 lists the Turkish character set:

Table 17-12: Turkish character sets

Character set

Description

cp857

IBM PC Turkish

cp1254

Microsoft Windows Turkish

iso88599

ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish

turkish8

HP TURKISH8

macturk

Macintosh Turkish

Table 17-13 lists the Unicode character set:

Table 17-13: Unicode character set

Character set

Description

utf8

Unicode UTF-8 encoding

Table 17-14 lists the Vietnamese character set:

Table 17-14: Vietnamese character set

Character set

Description

cp1258

Microsoft Windows Vietnamese

Table 17-15 lists the Western European character set:

Table 17-15: Western European character set

Character set

Description

ascii8

US ASCII, with 8-bit data, ISO 646

cp437

IBM CP437 - U.S. code set

cp850

IBM CP850 - European code set

cp860

PC Portuguese

cp858

cp850 with Euro support

cp1252

Microsoft Windows US (ANSI)

iso_1

ISO 8859-1 Latin-1

roman8

HP ROMAN8

iso15

ISO 8859-15 Latin-1 with Euro support

roman9

HP ROMAN8 with Euro support

mac

Macintosh Roman

mac_euro

Macintosh Roman with EURO support