$SYS_CHARSET
Specify the character set used for communication with the operating system and for communication between Uniface and non-Uniface components, if they are not Unicode-based.
$SYS_CHARSET {=} CharacterSet
Defaults
| Assignment file: | Any application assignment file |
| Section: | [SETTINGS] |
| Default value: | None |
Arguments
CharacterSet—character set supported by both the operating system and Uniface. The allowed values for CharacterSet are listed in the following table.
|
Character Set |
Description | Platform |
|---|---|---|
| CP1250 | Code page 1250 for Eastern European language | Windows |
| CP1251 | Code page 1251 for Cyrillic language | Windows |
| CP1252 | Code page 1252 for Western European language | Windows |
| CP1253 | Code page 1253 for Greek | Windows |
| CP1255 | Code page 1255 for Hebrew | Windows |
| CP1256 | Code page 1256 for Arabic | Windows |
| CP708 | Code page 708 (7-bit) for Arabic | Windows |
| BIG5 | Traditional Chinese character set BIG5. | Windows, Unix, Linux |
| GB (or GB2312) | Simplified Chinese character set GB2312-80 (code page 936) | Windows, Unix, Linux |
| KSC (or KSC5601) | Korean character set KSC5601-1992 (code page 949) | Windows, Unix, Linux |
| Shift-JIS | Japanese character set Shift-JIS ( code page 932 and 943) | Windows, Unix, Linux |
| EUC | Japanese character set EUC | Unix, Linux |
| LATIN1 (or DEC) | ISO 8859-1 for Western European languages | Unix, Linux |
| LATIN2 | ISO 8859-2 for Eastern European languages | Unix, Linux |
| LATIN5 | ISO 8859-5 for Cyrillic languages | Unix, Linux |
| LATIN6 | ISO 8859-6 for Arabic | Unix, Linux |
| LATIN7 | ISO 8859-7 for Greek | Unix, Linux |
| LATIN8 | ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew | Unix, Linux |
| 037 | CCSID for English | iSeries |
| 500 | CCSID for English without € | Multilingual iSeries |
| 1148 | CCSID for English with € | Multilingual iSeries |
| 870 | CCSID for Easter European languages | iSeries |
| 424 | CCSID for Hebrew | iSeries |
| 935 | CCSID for Simplified Chinese | iSeries |
| 933 | CCSID for Korean | iSeries |
| 9301 | CCSID for Japanese | iSeries |
| 939 | CCSID for Japanese | iSeries |
| 273 | CCSID for German/Austrian without € | iSeries |
| 1141 | CCSID for German/Austrian with € | iSeries |
| 280 | CCSID for Italian without € | iSeries |
| 1144 | CCSID for Italian with € | iSeries |
| 284 | CCSID for Spanish without € | iSeries |
| 1145 | CCSID for Spanish with € | iSeries |
| 297 | CCSID for French without € | iSeries |
| 1147 | CCSID for French with € |
iSeries |
| 278 | CCSID for Finish/Swedish without € | iSeries |
| 1143 | CCSID for Finish/Swedish with € | iSeries |
| AIX (or IBMRT) | IBM RT | |
|
CP437 (or IBMPC) |
IBM PC code page 437, used in DOS programs | |
|
CP850 |
IBM PC code page 850 | |
| UTF8 | Unicode |
Description
Uniface uses Unicode to communicate with Unicode-based components, such as Web services call-in and call-out, and uses $SYS_CHARSET to communicate with components that are not Unicode-based, such as C call-in and call-out.
There are many communication channels between Uniface and the operating system. For each of them, if Unicode is used on the operating system, Uniface uses Unicode for the communication; otherwise, $SYS_CHARSET is used for the communication.
For example, to display or input string field characters in Microsoft Windows, Unicode is used because Windows uses Unicode to code characters. If a text file is stored using Unicode format, Unicode is also used. Otherwise, $SYS_CHARSET is used for the file’s I/O activities between Uniface and the operating system.
The Uniface installation program initializes $SYS_CHARSET to the character set selected during Uniface installation (in the Character set selection screen). After installation, it is recommended that you check if $SYS_CHARSET is set correctly. You can use the ProcScript function $sys_charset to test the value of $SYS_CHARSET.
A different character set can be specified for accessing zip files using $ZIP_CHARSET.
$SYS_CHARSET
For example, if Uniface is installed on an English Series:
$SYS_CHARSET = 037
