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Understanding locales
Character set labels
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For more information, see "Setting the SQLLOCALE environment
variable" on page 328.
Open Client applications check the locales.dat file in the Sybase locales
directory is used.
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Character set information from the operating system is used to determine
the locale:
•
On Windows operating systems, use the GetACP system call. This
returns the ANSI character set, not the OEM character set.
•
On UNIX, default to ISO8859-1.
•
On other platforms, use code page 850.
The following table shows the valid character set label values, together with the
equivalent IANA labels and a description:
Character set
label
IANA label
iso_1
iso_8859-1:1987
cp850
<N/A>
cp437
<N/A>
roman8
hp-rpman8
mac
macintosh
sjis
shift_jis
eucjis
euc-jp
deckanji
<N/A>
euccns
<N/A>
eucgb
<N/A>
cp932
windows-31j
iso88592
iso_8859-2:1987
iso88595
iso_8859-5:1988
iso88596
iso_8859-6:1987
iso88597
iso_8859-7:1987
iso88598
iso_8859-8:1988
iso88599
iso_8859-9:1989
iso15
<N/A>
mac_cyr
<N/A>
mac_ee
<N/A>
Description
ISO 8859-1 Latin-1
IBM CP850 - European code set
IBM CP437 - U.S. code set
HP Roman-8
Standard Mac coding
Shift JIS (no extensions)
Sun EUC JIS encoding
DEC Unix JIS encoding
EUC CNS encoding: Traditional
Chinese with extensions
EUC GB encoding = Simplified
Chinese
Microsoft CP932 = Win31J-DBCS
ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Eastern Europe
ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
ISO 8859-15 Latin1 with Euro, etc.
Macintosh Cyrillic
Macintosh Eastern European
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