Supported character sets

The following language, scripts and character sets are supported by the Cluster Edition:

The tables define each character set.

Table 18-1 lists the Arabic character set:

Table 18-2 lists the Baltic character set:

**Table 18-2: Baltic character sets**
Character set	Description
cp1257	Microsoft Windows Baltic

Table 18-3 lists the simplified Chinese character set:

**Table 18-3: Simplified Chinese character sets**
Character set	Description
eucgb	EUC GB encoding = Simplified Chinese character sets
cp936	Microsoft Simplified Chinese character sets
gb18030	PRC 18030 standard

Table 18-4 lists the traditional Chinese character set:

**Table 18-4: Traditional Chinese character set**
Character set	Description
cp950	PC (Microsoft) Traditional Chinese
euccns	EUC CNS encoding = Traditional Chinese with extensions
big5	Big 5 Traditional Chinese
big5hk	Big 5 with HKSCS extensions

Table 18-5 lists the Cyrillic character set:

Table 18-6 lists the Eastern European character set:

**Table 18-6: Eastern European character sets**
Character set	Description
cp852	PC Eastern Europe
cp1250	Microsoft Windows 3.1 Eastern European
iso88592	ISO 8859-2 Latin-2

Table 18-7 lists the Greek character set:

Table 18-8 lists the Hebrew character set:

**Table 18-8: Hebrew character sets**
Character set	Description
cp1255	Microsoft Windows Hebrew
iso88598	ISO 8859-8 Hebrew

Table 18-9 lists the Japanese character set:

Table 18-10 lists the Korean character set:

**Table 18-10: Korean character sets**
Character set	Description
eucksc	EUC KSC Korean encoding = CP949
cp949	Ms Windows Korean

Table 18-11 lists the Thai character set:

**Table 18-11: Thai client character sets**
Character set	Description
tis620	TIS-620 Thai standard
cp874	Microsoft Windows Thai

Table 18-12 lists the Turkish character set:

Table 18-13 lists the Unicode character set:

**Table 18-13: Unicode character set**
Character set	Description
utf8	Unicode UTF-8 encoding

Table 18-14 lists the Vietnamese character set:

**Table 18-14: Vietnamese character set**
Character set	Description
cp1258	Microsoft Windows Vietnamese

Table 18-15 lists the Western European character set:

**Table 18-15: Western European character set**
Character set	Description
ascii8	US ASCII, with 8-bit data, ISO 646
cp437	IBM CP437 - U.S. code set
cp850	IBM CP850 - European code set
cp860	PC Portuguese
cp858	cp850 with Euro support
cp1252	Microsoft Windows US (ANSI)
iso_1	ISO 8859-1 Latin-1
roman8	HP ROMAN8
iso15	ISO 8859-15 Latin-1 with Euro support
roman9	HP ROMAN8 with Euro support
mac	Macintosh Roman
mac_euro	Macintosh Roman with EURO support