When Creating a Message Definition in the New Message Definition wizard, use the following tables to determine the appropriate character set and locale name values to associate with the message definition.
Supported character sets
| Character set | Alias | Description |
|---|---|---|
Big5 | ibm-1373_P100-2002 ibm-1373 ibm-1373_VSUB_VPUA csBig5 x-big5 cp950 950 | Traditional Chinese |
Big5-HKSCS | big5-jkscs big5hk big5-hkscs:unicode3.0 big5hkscs Big5_HKSCS HK SCS-200 | Chinese |
GB18030 | ibm-1392 | Simplified Chinese PRC standard |
GBK | CP936 | Chinese |
EUC-JP | ibm-33722_P12A-2000 ibm-33722 ibm-33722_VPUA ibm-5050 ibm-eucJP eucjis Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese csEUCPkdFmtJapanese X-EUC-JP | EUC encoding Japanese |
EUC-KR | ibm-970_P110-2000 ibm-970 ibm-970_VPUA ibm-eucKR csEUCKR | EUC encoding, Korean |
Cp037 | cp37 037 IBM037 ibm-37_P100-1995 ibm-37 ibm-037 cpibm37 ebcdic-cp-us ebcdic-cp-ca ebcdic-cp-wt ebcdic-cp-nl csIBM037 | EBCDIC - US |
Cp273 | IBM273
ibm-273_P100-1995 ibm-273 csIBM273 ebcdic-de cpibm273 273 | EBCDIC - Germany, Austria |
Cp280 | IBM280 ibm-280_P100-1995 ibm-280 ebcdic-cp-it csIBM280 cpibm280 280 | EBCDIC - Italy |
Cp284 | IBM284 ibm-284_P100-1995 ibm-284 ebcdic-cp-es csIBM284 cpibm284 284 | EBCDIC - Catalan/Spain, Spanish Latin America |
Cp285 | IBM285
ibm-285_P100-1995 ibm-285 ebcdic-cp-gb csIBM285 ebcdic-gb cpibm285 285 | EBCDIC - United Kingdom, Ireland |
Cp297 | IBM297 ibm-297_P100-1995 ibm-297 ebcdic-cp-fr csIBM297 cpibm297 297 | EBCDID - France |
ISO-2022-JP | N/A | Japanese |
ISO-2022-KR | N/A | Korean email |
ISO-8859-1 | LATIN-1 ibm-819 IBM819 cp819 latin1 8859-1 csISOLatin1 iso-ir-100 ISO_8859-1:1987 I1 819 | Latin-1, Western Europe |
ISO-8859-2 | ibm-912 latin2 8859-2 csISOLatin2 iso-ir-101 ISO_8859-2:1987 l2 cp912 912 | Latin-2, Central Europe |
ISO-8859-3 | ibm-913 latin3 8859-3 csISOLatin3 iso-ir-101 ISO_8859-3:1988 l3 cp913 913 | Latin-3, Maltese Esperanto |
ISO-8859-4 | ibm-914 latin4 8859-4 csISOLatin4 iso-ir-110 ISO_8859-4:1988 l4 cp914 914 | Latin-4, Baltic |
ISO-8859-5 | ibm-915 cyrillic 8859-5 csISOLatinCyrillic iso-ir-144 ISO_8859-5:1988 cp915 915 | Latin-5, Cyrillic |
ISO-8859-6 | N/A | Arabic |
ISO-8859-7 | ibm-813 greek greek8 elott_928 ecma_118 8859_7 csISOLatinGreek iso-ir-126 ISO_8859-7:1987 cp813 813 | Greek |
ISO-8859-8 | CP1255 | Hebrew |
ISO-8859-9 | N/A | Turkish |
ISO-8859-11 | TIS-620 | Thai |
ISO-8859-13 | N/A | Baltic |
ISO-8859-15 | Latin9 | Latin |
JIS_X0201 | JIS X 0201 JIS-Roman JISCII | Japanese |
JIS_X0212-1990 | JIS X 0212 | Japanese |
KOI8-R | DIS-8859-5 RFC 1489 | Cyrillic |
Shift_JIS | ibm-943_P14A-2000 ibm-943 ibm-943_VSUB_VPUA sjis cp943 cp932 pck MS_Kanji csShiftJIS window-31j csWindows31J x-sjis 943 | Shift-JIS Japanese |
US-ASCII | ASCII ascii-7 ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ISO_646.irv:1991 iso_646.irv:1983 ISO646-US us csASCII 646 iso-ir-6 cp367 | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
UTF-8 | ibm-1208 ibm-1209 ibm-5304 ibm-5305 cp1208 cp65001 | Unicode UTF-8 |
UTF-16 | ISO-10646-UCS-2 csUnicode ucs-2 | Unicode UTF-16 |
UTF-16BE | N/A | Big-endian UTF-16 |
UTF-16LE | N/A | Little-endian UTF-16 |
windows-1250 | cp1250 cp5346 | Eastern Europe |
windows-1251 | ansi-1251 cp1251 cp5347 | Cyrillic |
windows-1252 | ibm-5348_p100_1997 ibm-5348 cp1252 | Windows Latin-1 |
windows-1253 | ibm-5349_P100-1998 ibm-5349 cp1253 | Windows Greek |
windows-1254 | cp5350 cp1254 | Latin, Greek |
windows-1255 | cp1255 | Hebrew |
windows-1256 |
Setting Message Definition Preferences