{ CharSet | CS }={ NONE | character-set }

Anywhere

The local character set.

For information about how the local character set is determined, see Determining locale information.

If you supply a value for CharSet, the specified character set is used for the current connection.

When unloading data, you can specify the character set using the CharSet connection parameter.

To avoid lossy character set conversions, setting the CharSet connection parameter is not recommended when using Unicode client APIs. Unicode client APIs include ADO.NET, OLE DB, and the SQL Anywhere JDBC driver. ODBC is also a Unicode client API when the wide (Unicode) functions are used.

• Using connection parameters
• SACHARSET environment variable
• Understanding the locale character set

The following connection string fragment specifies that Windows Code Page 1252 should be used for the connections:

CharSet=windows-1252