Supported character sets

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

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

- Check mark (x) – the character set requires Unilib conversion.
- No check mark – the character set may use either the Unilib conversion or the built-in conversion.
For more information see “Character set conversion”.

Table 7-1 lists the Arabic character set:

Table 7-2 lists the Baltic character set:

**Table 7-2: Baltic character sets**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
cp1257	X	Microsoft Windows Baltic

Table 7-3 lists the simplified Chinese character set:

**Table 7-3: 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
gb18030	X	PRC 18030 standard

Table 7-4 lists the traditional Chinese character set:

**Table 7-4: 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
big5hk	X	Big 5 with HKSCS extensions

Table 7-5 lists the Cyrillic character set:

Table 7-6 lists the Eastern European character set:

**Table 7-6: 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

Table 7-7 lists the Greek character set:

Table 7-8 lists the Hebrew character set:

**Table 7-8: Hebrew character sets**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
cp1255	X	Microsoft Windows Hebrew
iso88598	X	ISO 8859-8 Hebrew

Table 7-9 lists the Japanese character set:

Table 7-10 lists the Korean character set:

**Table 7-10: Korean character sets**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
eucksc	X	EUC KSC Korean encoding = CP949

Table 7-11 lists the Thai character set:

**Table 7-11: Thai client character sets**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
tis620	X	TIS-620 Thai standard
cp874	X	Microsoft Windows Thai

Table 7-12 lists the Turkish character set:

Table 7-13 lists the Unicode character set:

**Table 7-13: Unicode character set**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
utf8	X	Unicode UTF-8 encoding

Table 7-14 lists the Vietnamese character set:

**Table 7-14: Vietnamese character set**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
cp1258	X	Microsoft Windows Vietnamese

Table 7-15 lists the Western European character set: