Predefined character sets

Predefined SBCSs shipped with the product include:

SBCS

Definition

ascii_8

Default used for logins and for IBM cp1027 (code page 1027) support

cp437 (code page 437)

Used by IBM PCs

cp850 (code page 850)

IBM/Microsoft Multilingual Character Set, used by IBM PCs

iso_1 (ascii 0819)

International ISO standard, 8-bit character set for many systems, and the default for Adaptive Server Enterprise on several platforms

mac (Macintosh Roman)

Default used by Macintosh systems

roman8

Default Hewlett-Packard proprietary character set

WARNING! Unpredictable failures can occur if the character set names are changed from lowercase to uppercase.