Unicode client/server systems

If your server default is Unicode UTF-8, then all conversions are between UTF-8 and whatever native character set is being used on the client systems. Therefore, in a Unicode system, Unicode conversions are used exclusively.

Table 8-1: Conversion methods for character sets

Language group

Column 1 – Adaptive Server direct conversions and Unicode conversions

Column 2 – Unicode conversions only

Group 1

CP 437, CP 850, ISO 8859-1, Macintosh Roman, ROMAN8

CP 860, CP 1252, ISO 8859-15, CP 863

Group 2

CP 852, CP 1250, CP 8859-1, Macintosh Central European

ISO 8859-2

Group 4

No conversions needed (only one character set supported)

Group 5

CP 855, CP 866, CP 1251, ISO 8859-5, Koi8, Macintosh Cyrillic

Group 6

CP 864, CP 1256, ISO 8859-6

Group 7

CP 869, CP 1253, GREEK8, ISO 8859-7, Macintosh Greek

Group 8

CP 1255, ISO 8859-8

Group 9

CP 857, CP 1254, ISO 8859-9, Macintosh Turkish, TURKISH8

Group 101

DEC Kanjii, EUC-JIS, Shift-JIS

CP 932

Group 102

CP 936, EUG-GB

Group 103

Big 5, CP 950, EUC-CNS

Group 104

No conversions needed (only one character set supported)

Group 105

CP 874, TIS 620

Group 106

No conversions needed (only one character set supported)

Unicode

No conversions needed (only one character set supported)