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Character Set
You must select the character set during installation. This value is stored in the II_CHARSET environment variable. The installation program provides a default value.
IMPORTANT!  After Ingres is installed, you cannot change the character set from its current setting at any time without risking the corruption of your data.
Ingres-supported character sets are as follows:
Character Set
Description
Format
ALT
Support of Cyrillic on DOS
Single byte
ARABIC
Arabic-449-Plus
Single byte
CHINESES
Simplified Chinese - PRC
Double byte
CHTBIG5
Traditional Chinese - Taiwan, BIG5
Double byte
CHTEUC
Traditional Chinese - Taiwan, EUC
Double byte
CHTHP
Traditional Chinese - Taiwan, HP ROC15
Double byte
CSGB2312
Simplified Chinese - GB2312
Double byte
CSGBK
Simplified Chinese - GBK
Double byte
CW
Cyrillic on Windows 3.1
Single byte
DECMULTI
DEC Multinational (superset of ASCII) and default for VMS
Single byte
DOSASMO
IBM DOS ASMO Arabic (cp708)
Single byte
ELOT437
Greek for PC/RS6000/SCO-UNIX
Single byte
GREEK
DEC Greek Elot
Single byte
HEBREW
DEC Hebrew
Single byte
HPROMAN8
HP Roman8 (superset of ASCII)
Single byte
IBMPC437
IBM PC Code Page 437 (US and English)
Single byte
IBMPC850
IBM PC Code Page 850 (Multilingual), includes accented characters
Single byte
IBMPC866
IBM PC 866 (Cyrillic for DOS)
Single byte
IS885915
ISO 8859/2 (Latin and some Greek). Identical to ISO 8859/1 Latin, except for eight characters, including the Euro currency symbol (€, Unicode U+20AC).
Single byte
ISO88591
ISO 8859/1 Latin and default for UNIX (superset of ASCII)
Single byte
ISO88592
8859/5 (Latin and Cyrillic)
Single byte
ISO88595
8859/9 (Latin and some Turkish) CP 920
Single byte
ISO88597
ISO 8859/7 (Greek)
Single byte
ISO88599
ISO 8859/15 (Latin and Euro sign)
Single byte
KANJIEUC
Japanese, EUC
Double byte
KOI18
KOI 8-bit (ISO 6937/8), Russia
Single byte
KOREAN
Korean
Double byte
PC737
IBM PC Code page 737 - Greek
Single byte
PC857
IBM PC Code page 857 - Turkish
Single byte
PCHEBREW
IBM PC / MSDOS Hebrew
Single byte
SHIFTJIS
Shift-JIS Japanese
Double byte
SLAV852
IBM PC Code Page 852 (Slavic)
Single byte
THAI
DEC Thai Tis
Single byte
UTF8
Unicode encoding form UTF-8
Multi-byte
WARABIC
Arabic
Single byte
WHEBREW
Microsoft Windows Hebrew
Single byte
WIN1250
Eastern Europe: Windows page 1250
Single byte
WIN1252
Windows code page 1252 - Latin 1 (Western Europe) and default for Windows
Single byte
WIN1253
Modern Greek
Single byte
WTHAI
IBM/Windows Thai (cp874)
Single byte
Note:  On Linux, the character set value must be entered in uppercase.
Last modified date: 01/30/2023