SQL Anywhere can perform character set conversion between character sets that represent the same characters, but at different positions in the character set or code page. There needs to be a degree of compatibility between the character sets for this to be possible. For example, character set conversion is possible between EUC-JIS and cp932 character sets, but not between EUC-JIS and cp1252.

SQL Anywhere implements character set conversion using the International Components for Unicode (ICU) open source library, developed and maintained by IBM.

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