If your server default is Unicode UTF-8, then all conversions
are between UTF-8 and whatever native character set is being used
on the client systems. Therefore, in a Unicode system, Unicode conversions
are used exclusively.
Table 10-1: Conversion methods for character sets
Language group
|
Column 1 – Adaptive
Server direct conversions and Unicode conversions
|
Column 2 – Unicode conversions
only
|
|---|
Group 1
|
CP 437, CP 850, ISO 8859-1,
Macintosh Roman
|
CP 860, CP 1252, ISO 8859-15, CP
863
|
Group 2
|
CP 852, CP 1250, CP 8859-1,
Macintosh Central European
|
ISO 8859-2
|
Group 4
|
No conversions needed (only
one character set supported)
|
|
Group 5
|
CP 855, CP 866, CP 1251,
ISO 8859-5, Koi8, Macintosh Cyrillic
|
|
Group 6
|
|
CP 864, CP 1256, ISO 8859-6
|
Group 7
|
CP 869, CP 1253, GREEK8,
ISO 8859-7, Macintosh Greek
|
|
Group 8
|
|
CP 1255, ISO 8859-8
|
Group 9
|
CP 857, CP 1254, ISO 8859-9,
Macintosh Turkish, TURKISH8
|
|
Group 101
|
DEC Kanjii, EUC-JIS, Shift-JIS
|
CP 932
|
Group 102
|
|
CP 936, EUG-GB, GB18303
|
Group 103
|
|
Big 5, CP 950, EUC-CNS
|
Group 104
|
|
EUCKSC, CP 949
|
Group 105
|
|
CP 874, TIS 620
|
Group 106
|
No conversions needed (only
one character set supported)
|
|
Unicode
|
No conversions needed (only
one character set supported)
|
|
