Western European Character Sets

SAP ASE supports Western European character sets.

  • X – requires Unilib conversion.

  • No X – may use either the Unilib conversion or the built-in conversion.

Character Set

Unilib Required

Description

ascii8

X

US ASCII, with 8-bit data, ISO 646

cp437

IBM CP437 – US code set

cp850

IBM CP850 – European code set

cp860

X

PC Portuguese

cp863

X

IBM PC Canadian French code page

cp1252

X

Microsoft Windows US (ANSI)

iso_1

ISO 8859-1 Latin-1

mac

Standard Macintosh coding

roman8

HP ROMAN8

iso 885915

X

ISO 8859-15 Latin-1 with Euro support