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).

- 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 lists the Arabic character set:

Table 6-2 lists the Baltic character set:

**Table 6-2: Baltic character sets**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
cp1257	X	Microsoft Windows Baltic

Table 6-3 lists the simplified Chinese character set:

**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 lists the traditional Chinese character set:

**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 lists the Cyrillic character set:

Table 6-6 lists the Eastern European character set:

**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 lists the Greek character set:

Table 6-8 lists the Hebrew character set:

**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 lists the Japanese character set:

Table 6-10 lists the Korean character set:

**Table 6-10: Korean character sets**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
eucksc	X	EUC KSC Korean encoding = CP949

Table 6-11 lists the Thai character set:

**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 lists the Turkish character set:

Table 6-13 lists the Unicode character set:

**Table 6-13: Unicode character set**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
utf8	X	Unicode UTF-8 encoding

Table 6-14 lists the Vietnamese character set:

**Table 6-14: Vietnamese character set**
Character set	Unilib required	Description
cp1258	X	Microsoft Windows Vietnamese

Table 6-15 lists the Western European character set:

**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