Many languages have few enough characters to be represented in a single-byte character set. In such a character set, each character is represented by a single byte: a two-digit hexadecimal number.
At most, 256 characters can be represented in a single byte. No single-byte character set can hold all of the characters used internationally, including accented characters. This problem was addressed by the development of a set of code pages, each of which describes a set of characters appropriate for one or more national languages. For example, code page 869 contains the Greek character set, and code page 850 contains an international character set suitable for representing many characters in a variety of languages.
For information on ANSI and OEM code pages in Windows, see “ANSI and OEM code pages in Windows” in SQL Anywhere Server – Database Administration > Configuring Your Database > International languages and character sets > Understanding character sets.
For a list of supported code pages, see “Supported and alternate collations” in SQL Anywhere Server – Database Administration > Configuring Your Database > International languages and character sets > Character set and collation reference information.
