MIME Charset Names
This chapter lists the acceptable MIME charset values for the Charset parameter of the Open statement.
See the Open statement for usage.
| Charset Name |
Description |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 |
8 bit encoding of ISO-10646. |
| UTF-16LE |
16 bit little endian encoding of ISO-10646. |
| UTF-16BE |
16 bit big endian encoding of ISO-10646. |
| UTF-16 |
16 bit platform native byte order encoding of ISO-10646. |
| ASCII |
US 7-bit ASCII, ISO-646 |
| Windows-1250 |
Windows™ character set for Central European languages. |
| Windows-1251 |
Windows™ character set for Cryllic languages. |
| Windows-1252 |
Windows™ character set for Western European languages. |
| Windows-1253 |
Windows™ character set for Greek. |
| Windows-1254 |
Windows™ character set for Turkish. |
| Windows-1255 |
Windows™ character set for Hebrew. |
| Windows-1256 |
Windows™ character set for Arabic languages. |
| Windows-1257 |
Windows™ character set for Baltic rim languages. |
| Windows-1258 |
Windows™ character set for Vietnamese. |
| Windows-874 |
Windows™ character set for Thai. |
| ISO-8859-1 |
ISO character set for Western European languages. |
| ISO-8859-2 |
ISO character set for Central European languages. |
| ISO-8859-3 |
ISO character set for Esperanto and Maltese. |
| ISO-8859-4 |
ISO character set for Baltic rim languages. |
| ISO-8859-5 |
ISO character set for Cryllic languages. |
| ISO-8859-6 |
ISO character set for Arabic languages. |
| ISO-8859-7 |
ISO character set for Greek. |
| ISO-8859-8 |
ISO character set for Hebrew. |
| ISO-8859-9 |
ISO character set for Turkish. |
| ISO-8859-15 |
ISO character set for Western European languages. |
| KOI8-R |
Cryllic character set. |
| Shift_JIS |
Japanese character set. |
| EUC-JP |
Japanese character set. |
| EUC-KR |
Korean character set. |
| Big5 |
Traditional Chinese character set. |
| GB2312 |
Simplified Chinese character set. |
| GB18030 |
Simplified Chinese character set. |
| LMBCS |
Lotus® Multi Byte Character Set. |
EBCDIC charset names
| Charset Name |
Description |
|---|---|
| IBM037 |
US and Canadian English, Dutch, Protuguese |
| EBCDIC-US |
Alias for IBM037 |
| IBM273 |
German |
| IBM277 |
Danish, Norwegian |
| IBM278 |
Finnish, Swedish |
| IBM280 |
Italian |
| IBM284 |
Spanish |
| IBM285 |
International English |
| IBM297 |
French |
| IBM420 |
Arabic |
| IBM424 |
Hebrew |
| IBM500 |
Intl. Eglish, Latin-1, Albanian, Belgian English, French |
| IBM838 |
Thai |
| IBM870 |
Latin-2, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish |
| IBM871 |
Icelandic |
| IBM875 |
Greek |
| IBM1025 |
Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic |
| IBM1026 |
Turkish |
| IBM1047 |
Latin-1 Open Systems |
| IBM1112 |
Latvian, Lithuanian |
| IBM1122 |
Estonian |
| IBM930 |
Japanese Katakana |
| IBM933 |
Korean |
| IBM935 |
Simplified Chinese |
| IBM937 |
Traditional Chinese |
| IBM939 |
Japanese Latin |
| IBM1388 |
Simplified Chinese |