Supported character sets

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

Arabic – See Table 6-1.
Baltic – See Table 6-2.
Chinese, Simplified – See Table 6-3.
Chinese, Traditional – See Table 6-4
Cyrillic – See Table 6-5.
Eastern European – See Table 6-6.
Greek – See Table 6-7.
Hebrew – See Table 6-8.
Japanese – See Table 6-9.
Korean – See Table 6-10.
Thai – See Table 6-11.
Turkish – See Table 6-12.
Unicode – See Table 6-13.
Vietnamese – See Table 6-14.
Western European – See Table 6-15.

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

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

**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