Character Sets
UTF-8 is the default value, and is recommend for almost all situations. However, the character sets below are available as needed.
| Character Set | Description |
|---|---|
| Big5 | Traditional Chinese |
| Big5-HKSCS | Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese (incorporating 2001 revision) |
| EUC-JP | JISX 0201, 0208 and 0212, EUC encoding Japanese |
| EUC-KR | KS C 5601, EUC encoding, Korean |
| GB18030 | Simplified Chinese, PRC standard |
| GB2312 | EUC encoding, Simplified Chinese |
| GBK | Simplified Chinese |
| ISO-2022-CN | GB2312 and CNS11643 in ISO 2022 CN form, Simplified and Traditional Chinese (conversion to Unicode only) |
| ISO-2022-JP | JIS X 0201, 0208, in ISO 2022 form, Japanese |
| ISO-2022-KR | ISO 2022 KR, Korean |
| ISO-8859-1 | Latin alphabet No. 1, “Western European” |
| ISO-8859-2 | Latin Alphabet No. 2, “Eastern European” |
| ISO-8859-2 | Latin Alphabet No. 3, “South European” |
| ISO-8859-3 | Latin Alphabet No. 4, “North European” |
| ISO-8859-4 | Latin/Cyrillic Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-5 | Latin/Arabic Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-6 | Latin/Greek Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-7 | Latin/Hebrew Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-8 | Latin Alphabet No. 5, “Turkish” |
| ISO-8859-9 | Latin Alphabet No. 7, “Baltic Rim” |
| ISO-8859-13 | Latin Alphabet No. 9, “Western European with Euro Sign” |
| ISO-8859-15 | Latin Alphabet No. 9, “Western European with Euro Sign” |
| KOI8-R | Russian |
| Shift_JIS | Japanese |
| TIS-620 | Thai |
| US-ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| UTF-8 | Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format |
| UTF-16 | Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format |