Character Set

Character set used for storing the entity in the database.

Description

Select the character set from the list. If a value is defined, it overrides the value of $DEF_CHARSET.

Character Sets
Installable Character set	Description	Platform
`(default)`	Character set defined during installation.
`Uniface meta encoding`	Unicode UTF8
`ISO Latin1`	ISO 8859-1 for Western European languages	Unix
`ISO Latin2`	ISO 8859-2 for Eastern European languages	Unix
`ISO Latin5`	ISO 8859-5 for Cyrillic languages	Unix
`ISO Latin6`	ISO 8859-6 for Arabic	Unix
`ISO Latin7`	ISO 8859-7 for Greek	Unix
`ISO Latin8`	ISO 8859-8 for Greek	Unix
`AIX (codepage 437)`	IBM RT	AIX
`AIX Arabic`	IBM RT Arabic	AIX
`IBM PC 437`	Code page 437, used in DOS programs	DOS
`IBM PC 708`	Code page 708 (7-bit) for Arabic	Windows
`IBM PC 850`	Code page 850 for Western European languages	DOS
`IBM PC 1250`	Code page 1250 for Eastern European language	Windows
`IBM PC 1251`	Code page 1251 for Cyrillic language	Windows
`IBM PC 1252`	Code page 1252 for Western European language	Windows
`IBM PC 1253`	Code page 1253 for Greek	Windows
`IBM PC 1255`	Code page 1255 for Hebrew	Windows
`IBM PC 1256`	Code page 1256 for Arabic	Windows
`IBM EBCDIC`		OS/400, z/OS
`Shift-JIS`	Japanese character set Shift-JIS ( code page 932 and 943)	Windows, Unix
`JIS`	Japanese character set JIS X 0208	Windows, Unix
`EUC`	Japanese character set EUC	Unix
`GB 2312-80`	Simplified Chinese character set GB 2312-80 (code page 936)	Windows, Unix
`TCA`
`CNS 11643 Planes 1 and 2`	Chinese Standard Interchange Code
`Eten`		ETen
`IBM 5550`	Kanji	IBM 5550
`BIG5`	Traditional Chinese character set BIG5.	Windows, Unix
`KSC 5601`	Korean character set KSC 5601-1992 (code page 949)	Windows, Unix