Supported character sets

The following language, scripts and character sets are supported by Adaptive Server version 12.5:

The tables define each character set and indicate information on whether it requires Unilib™ conversion (Unilib Required column).

Table 6-1: Arabic character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp864

X

PC Arabic

cp1256

X

Microsoft Windows Arabic

iso88596

X

ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic

Table 6-2: Baltic character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp1257

X

Microsoft Windows Baltic

Table 6-3: Simplified Chinese character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

eucgb

X

EUC GB encoding = Simplified Chinese character sets

cp936

X

Microsoft Simplified Chinese character sets

Table 6-4: Traditional Chinese character set

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp950

X

PC (Microsoft) Traditional Chinese

euccns

X

EUC CNS encoding = Traditional Chinese with extensions

big5

X

Big 5 Traditional Chinese

Table 6-5: Cyrillic character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp855

IBM PC Cyrillic

cp866

PC Russian

cp1251

Microsoft Windows 3.1 Cyrillic

iso88595

ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic

koi8

KOI-8 Cyrillic

mac_cyr

Macintosh Cyrillic

Table 6-6: Eastern European character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp852

PC Eastern Europe

cp1250

Microsoft Windows 3.1 Eastern European

iso88592

ISO 8859-2 Latin-2

mac_ee

Macintosh Eastern European

Table 6-7: Greek character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp869

IBM PC Greek

cp1253

MS Windows Greek

greek8

HP GREEK8

iso88597

ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek

macgrk2

Macintosh Greek

Table 6-8: Hebrew character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp1255

X

Microsoft Windows Hebrew

iso88598

X

ISO 8859-8 Hebrew

Table 6-9: Japanese character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp932

X

IBM J-DBCS:CP897 + CP301 (Shift-JIS)

deckanji

Digital UNIX JIS encoding

eucjis

EUC-JIS encoding

sjis

Shift-JIS (no extensions)

Table 6-10: Korean character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

eucksc

X

EUC KSC Korean encoding = CP949

Table 6-11: Thai client character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

tis620

X

TIS-620 Thai standard

cp874

X

Microsoft Windows Thai

Table 6-12: Turkish character sets

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp857

IBM PC Turkish

cp1254

Microsoft Windows Turkish

iso88599

ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish

macturk

Macintosh Turkish

turkish8

HP TURKISH8

Table 6-13: Unicode character set

Character set

Unilib required

Description

utf8

X

Unicode UTF-8 encoding

Table 6-14: Vietnamese character set

Character set

Unilib required

Description

cp1258

X

Microsoft Windows Vietnamese

Table 6-15: Western European character set

Character set

Unilib required

Description

ascii8

X

US ASCII, with 8-bit data, ISO 646

cp437

IBM CP437 - U.S. code set

cp850

IBM CP850 - European code set

cp860

X

PC Portuguese

cp863

X

IBM PC Canadian French code page

cp1252

X

Microsoft Windows US (ANSI)

iso_1

ISO 8859-1 Latin-1

mac

Standard Macintosh coding

roman8

HP ROMAN8

iso 885915

X

ISO 8859-15 Latin-1 with Euro support