International Character Sets

A. dos Santos Fernandes & Others

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New Character Sets and Collations Implemented Narrow Character Sets ICU Character Sets New Character Sets and Collations Implemented

The following new character set and/or collation implementations have been added in Firebird 2 releases:

Character Set Collation Description Implemented By ISO8859_1 ES_ES_CI_AI Spanish language case- and accent-insensitive collation for ISO8859_1 character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes " PT_BR Brazil Portuguese collation for ISO8859_1 character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes, P. H. Albanez ISO8859_2 ISO_PLK Polish collation for ISO8859_2 character set. J. Glowacki, A. dos Santos Fernandes KOI8R KOI8_RU Russian language character set and dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin KOI8U KOI8U_UA Ukrainian language character set and dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin WIN1250 BS_BA Bosnian language collation for WIN1250 character set. F. Hasovic " WIN_CZ_AI Czech language accent-insensitive collation for WIN1250 character set I. Prenosil, A. dos Santos Fernandes " WIN_CZ_CI_AI Czech language case- and accent-insensitive collation for WIN1250 character set I. Prenosil, A. dos Santos Fernandes WIN1252 WIN_PTBR Brazil Portuguese collation for WIN1252 character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes, P. H. Albanez WIN1257 WIN1257_LV Latvian dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin " WIN1257_LT Lithuanian dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin " WIN1257_EE Estonian dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin WIN1258 (n/a) Vietnamese language subset of charset WIN1258. Nguyen The Phuong, A. dos Santos Fernandes UTF8 UCS_BASIC Unicode 4.0 support with UTF8 character set and UCS_BASIC collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes " UNICODE Unicode 4.0 support with UTF8 character set and UNICODE collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes " UNICODE_CI Unicode 4.0 support with UTF8 character set and case-insensitive collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes ISO8859_1 FR_FR_CI_AI (V.2.1) French language case-insensitive and accent-insensitive collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes CP943C CP943C_UNICODE (V.2.1) Japanese character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes TIS620 TIS620_UNICODE (V.2.1) Thai character set, single byte. (Not known) Narrow Character Sets

CYRL, DOS437, DOS737, DOS775, DOS850, DOS852, DOS857, DOS858, DOS860, DOS861, DOS862, DOS863, DOS864, DOS865, DOS866, DOS869, ISO8859_1, ISO8859_13, ISO8859_2, ISO8859_3, ISO8859_4, ISO8859_5, ISO8859_6, ISO8859_7, ISO8859_8, ISO8859_9, KOI8R, KOI8U, NEXT, TIS620, WIN1250, WIN1251, WIN1252, WIN1253, WIN1254, WIN1255, WIN1256, WIN1257 and WIN1258.

ICU Character Sets

UTF-8 ibm-1208 ibm-1209 ibm-5304 ibm-5305 windows-65001 cp1208 UTF-16 ISO-10646-UCS-2 unicode csUnicode ucs-2 UTF-16BE x-utf-16be ibm-1200 ibm-1201 ibm-5297 ibm-13488

 ibm-17584 windows-1201 cp1200 cp1201 UTF16_BigEndian

UTF-16LE x-utf-16le ibm-1202 ibm-13490 ibm-17586

 UTF16_LittleEndian windows-1200

UTF-32 ISO-10646-UCS-4 csUCS4 ucs-4 UTF-32BE UTF32_BigEndian ibm-1232 ibm-1233 UTF-32LE UTF32_LittleEndian ibm-1234 UTF16_PlatformEndian UTF16_OppositeEndian UTF32_PlatformEndian UTF32_OppositeEndian UTF-7 windows-65000 IMAP-mailbox-name SCSU BOCU-1 csBOCU-1 CESU-8 ISO-8859-1 ibm-819 IBM819 cp819 latin1 8859_1 csISOLatin1

 iso-ir-100 ISO_8859-1:1987 l1 819

US-ASCII ASCII ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ISO_646.irv:1991

 iso_646.irv:1983 ISO646-US us csASCII iso-ir-6 cp367 ascii7
 646 windows-20127

ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=0 ISO-2022-JP csISO2022JP ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=1 ISO-2022-JP-1 JIS JIS_Encoding ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=2 ISO-2022-JP-2 csISO2022JP2 ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=3 JIS7 csJISEncoding ISO_2022,locale=ja,version=4 JIS8 ISO_2022,locale=ko,version=0 ISO-2022-KR csISO2022KR ISO_2022,locale=ko,version=1 ibm-25546 ISO_2022,locale=zh,version=0 ISO-2022-CN ISO_2022,locale=zh,version=1 ISO-2022-CN-EXT HZ HZ-GB-2312 ISCII,version=0 x-iscii-de windows-57002 iscii-dev ISCII,version=1 x-iscii-be windows-57003 iscii-bng windows-57006

 x-iscii-as

ISCII,version=2 x-iscii-pa windows-57011 iscii-gur ISCII,version=3 x-iscii-gu windows-57010 iscii-guj ISCII,version=4 x-iscii-or windows-57007 iscii-ori ISCII,version=5 x-iscii-ta windows-57004 iscii-tml ISCII,version=6 x-iscii-te windows-57005 iscii-tlg ISCII,version=7 x-iscii-ka windows-57008 iscii-knd ISCII,version=8 x-iscii-ma windows-57009 iscii-mlm gb18030 ibm-1392 windows-54936 LMBCS-1 lmbcs LMBCS-2 LMBCS-3 LMBCS-4 LMBCS-5 LMBCS-6 LMBCS-8 LMBCS-11 LMBCS-16 LMBCS-17 LMBCS-18 LMBCS-19 ibm-367_P100-1995 ibm-367 IBM367 ibm-912_P100-1995 ibm-912 iso-8859-2 ISO_8859-2:1987 latin2

 csISOLatin2 iso-ir-101 l2 8859_2 cp912 912 windows-28592

ibm-913_P100-2000 ibm-913 iso-8859-3 ISO_8859-3:1988 latin3

 csISOLatin3 iso-ir-109 l3 8859_3 cp913 913 windows-28593

ibm-914_P100-1995 ibm-914 iso-8859-4 latin4 csISOLatin4

 iso-ir-110 ISO_8859-4:1988 l4 8859_4 cp914 914 windows-28594

ibm-915_P100-1995 ibm-915 iso-8859-5 cyrillic csISOLatinCyrillic

 iso-ir-144 ISO_8859-5:1988 8859_5 cp915 915 windows-28595

ibm-1089_P100-1995 ibm-1089 iso-8859-6 arabic csISOLatinArabic

 iso-ir-127 ISO_8859-6:1987 ECMA-114 ASMO-708 8859_6 cp1089
 1089 windows-28596 ISO-8859-6-I ISO-8859-6-E

ibm-813_P100-1995 ibm-813 iso-8859-7 greek greek8 ELOT_928

 ECMA-118 csISOLatinGreek iso-ir-126 ISO_8859-7:1987 8859_7
 cp813 813 windows-28597

ibm-916_P100-1995 ibm-916 iso-8859-8 hebrew csISOLatinHebrew

 iso-ir-138 ISO_8859-8:1988 ISO-8859-8-I ISO-8859-8-E 8859_8
 cp916 916 windows-28598

ibm-920_P100-1995 ibm-920 iso-8859-9 latin5 csISOLatin5

 iso-ir-148 ISO_8859-9:1989 l5 8859_9 cp920 920 windows-28599
 ECMA-128

ibm-921_P100-1995 ibm-921 iso-8859-13 8859_13 cp921 921 ibm-923_P100-1998 ibm-923 iso-8859-15 Latin-9 l9 8859_15 latin0

 csisolatin0 csisolatin9 iso8859_15_fdis cp923 923 windows-28605

ibm-942_P12A-1999 ibm-942 ibm-932 cp932 shift_jis78 sjis78

 ibm-942_VSUB_VPUA ibm-932_VSUB_VPUA

ibm-943_P15A-2003 ibm-943 Shift_JIS MS_Kanji csShiftJIS

 windows-31j csWindows31J x-sjis x-ms-cp932 cp932 windows-932
 cp943c IBM-943C ms932 pck sjis ibm-943_VSUB_VPUA

ibm-943_P130-1999 ibm-943 Shift_JIS cp943 943 ibm-943_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA ibm-33722_P12A-1999 ibm-33722 ibm-5050 EUC-JP

 Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese
 csEUCPkdFmtJapanese X-EUC-JP eucjis windows-51932
 ibm-33722_VPUA IBM-eucJP

ibm-33722_P120-1999 ibm-33722 ibm-5050 cp33722 33722

 ibm-33722_VASCII_VPUA

ibm-954_P101-2000 ibm-954 EUC-JP ibm-1373_P100-2002 ibm-1373 windows-950 windows-950-2000 Big5 csBig5 windows-950 x-big5 ibm-950_P110-1999 ibm-950 cp950 950 macos-2566-10.2 Big5-HKSCS big5hk HKSCS-BIG5 ibm-1375_P100-2003 ibm-1375 Big5-HKSCS ibm-1386_P100-2002 ibm-1386 cp1386 windows-936 ibm-1386_VSUB_VPUA windows-936-2000 GBK CP936 MS936 windows-936 ibm-1383_P110-1999 ibm-1383 GB2312 csGB2312 EUC-CN ibm-eucCN

 hp15CN cp1383 1383 ibm-1383_VPUA

ibm-5478_P100-1995 ibm-5478 GB_2312-80 chinese iso-ir-58

 csISO58GB231280 gb2312-1980 GB2312.1980-0

ibm-964_P110-1999 ibm-964 EUC-TW ibm-eucTW cns11643 cp964 964

 ibm-964_VPUA

ibm-949_P110-1999 ibm-949 cp949 949 ibm-949_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA ibm-949_P11A-1999 ibm-949 cp949c ibm-949_VSUB_VPUA ibm-970_P110-1995 ibm-970 EUC-KR KS_C_5601-1987 windows-51949

 csEUCKR ibm-eucKR KSC_5601 5601 ibm-970_VPUA

ibm-971_P100-1995 ibm-971 ibm-971_VPUA ibm-1363_P11B-1998 ibm-1363 KS_C_5601-1987 KS_C_5601-1989 KSC_5601

 csKSC56011987 korean iso-ir-149 5601 cp1363 ksc windows-949
 ibm-1363_VSUB_VPUA

ibm-1363_P110-1997 ibm-1363 ibm-1363_VASCII_VSUB_VPUA windows-949-2000 windows-949 KS_C_5601-1987 KS_C_5601-1989

 KSC_5601 csKSC56011987 korean iso-ir-149 ms949

ibm-1162_P100-1999 ibm-1162 ibm-874_P100-1995 ibm-874 ibm-9066 cp874 TIS-620 tis620.2533

 eucTH cp9066

windows-874-2000 TIS-620 windows-874 MS874 ibm-437_P100-1995 ibm-437 IBM437 cp437 437 csPC8CodePage437

 windows-437

ibm-850_P100-1995 ibm-850 IBM850 cp850 850 csPC850Multilingual

 windows-850

ibm-851_P100-1995 ibm-851 IBM851 cp851 851 csPC851 ibm-852_P100-1995 ibm-852 IBM852 cp852 852 csPCp852 windows-852 ibm-855_P100-1995 ibm-855 IBM855 cp855 855 csIBM855 csPCp855 ibm-856_P100-1995 ibm-856 cp856 856 ibm-857_P100-1995 ibm-857 IBM857 cp857 857 csIBM857 windows-857 ibm-858_P100-1997 ibm-858 IBM00858 CCSID00858 CP00858

 PC-Multilingual-850+euro cp858

ibm-860_P100-1995 ibm-860 IBM860 cp860 860 csIBM860 ibm-861_P100-1995 ibm-861 IBM861 cp861 861 cp-is csIBM861

 windows-861

ibm-862_P100-1995 ibm-862 IBM862 cp862 862 csPC862LatinHebrew

 DOS-862 windows-862

ibm-863_P100-1995 ibm-863 IBM863 cp863 863 csIBM863 ibm-864_X110-1999 ibm-864 IBM864 cp864 csIBM864 ibm-865_P100-1995 ibm-865 IBM865 cp865 865 csIBM865 ibm-866_P100-1995 ibm-866 IBM866 cp866 866 csIBM866 windows-866 ibm-867_P100-1998 ibm-867 cp867 ibm-868_P100-1995 ibm-868 IBM868 CP868 868 csIBM868 cp-ar ibm-869_P100-1995 ibm-869 IBM869 cp869 869 cp-gr csIBM869

 windows-869

ibm-878_P100-1996 ibm-878 KOI8-R koi8 csKOI8R cp878 ibm-901_P100-1999 ibm-901 ibm-902_P100-1999 ibm-902 ibm-922_P100-1999 ibm-922 cp922 922 ibm-4909_P100-1999 ibm-4909 ibm-5346_P100-1998 ibm-5346 windows-1250 cp1250 ibm-5347_P100-1998 ibm-5347 windows-1251 cp1251 ibm-5348_P100-1997 ibm-5348 windows-1252 cp1252 ibm-5349_P100-1998 ibm-5349 windows-1253 cp1253 ibm-5350_P100-1998 ibm-5350 windows-1254 cp1254 ibm-9447_P100-2002 ibm-9447 windows-1255 cp1255 windows-1256-2000 windows-1256 cp1256 ibm-9449_P100-2002 ibm-9449 windows-1257 cp1257 ibm-5354_P100-1998 ibm-5354 windows-1258 cp1258 ibm-1250_P100-1995 ibm-1250 windows-1250 ibm-1251_P100-1995 ibm-1251 windows-1251 ibm-1252_P100-2000 ibm-1252 windows-1252 ibm-1253_P100-1995 ibm-1253 windows-1253 ibm-1254_P100-1995 ibm-1254 windows-1254 ibm-1255_P100-1995 ibm-1255 ibm-5351_P100-1998 ibm-5351 windows-1255 ibm-1256_P110-1997 ibm-1256 ibm-5352_P100-1998 ibm-5352 windows-1256 ibm-1257_P100-1995 ibm-1257 ibm-5353_P100-1998 ibm-5353 windows-1257 ibm-1258_P100-1997 ibm-1258 windows-1258 macos-0_2-10.2 macintosh mac csMacintosh windows-10000 macos-6-10.2 x-mac-greek windows-10006 macgr macos-7_3-10.2 x-mac-cyrillic windows-10007 maccy macos-29-10.2 x-mac-centraleurroman windows-10029 x-mac-ce macce macos-35-10.2 x-mac-turkish windows-10081 mactr ibm-1051_P100-1995 ibm-1051 hp-roman8 roman8 r8 csHPRoman8 ibm-1276_P100-1995 ibm-1276 Adobe-Standard-Encoding

 csAdobeStandardEncoding

ibm-1277_P100-1995 ibm-1277 Adobe-Latin1-Encoding ibm-1006_P100-1995 ibm-1006 cp1006 1006 ibm-1098_P100-1995 ibm-1098 cp1098 1098 ibm-1124_P100-1996 ibm-1124 cp1124 1124 ibm-1125_P100-1997 ibm-1125 cp1125 ibm-1129_P100-1997 ibm-1129 ibm-1131_P100-1997 ibm-1131 cp1131 ibm-1133_P100-1997 ibm-1133 ibm-1381_P110-1999 ibm-1381 cp1381 1381 ibm-37_P100-1995 ibm-37 IBM037 ibm-037 ebcdic-cp-us ebcdic-cp-ca

 ebcdic-cp-wt ebcdic-cp-nl csIBM037 cp037 037 cpibm37 cp37

ibm-273_P100-1995 ibm-273 IBM273 CP273 csIBM273 ebcdic-de cpibm273

 273

ibm-277_P100-1995 ibm-277 IBM277 cp277 EBCDIC-CP-DK EBCDIC-CP-NO

 csIBM277 ebcdic-dk cpibm277 277

ibm-278_P100-1995 ibm-278 IBM278 cp278 ebcdic-cp-fi ebcdic-cp-se

 csIBM278 ebcdic-sv cpibm278 278

ibm-280_P100-1995 ibm-280 IBM280 CP280 ebcdic-cp-it csIBM280

 cpibm280 280

ibm-284_P100-1995 ibm-284 IBM284 CP284 ebcdic-cp-es csIBM284

 cpibm284 284

ibm-285_P100-1995 ibm-285 IBM285 CP285 ebcdic-cp-gb csIBM285

 ebcdic-gb cpibm285 285

ibm-290_P100-1995 ibm-290 IBM290 cp290 EBCDIC-JP-kana csIBM290 ibm-297_P100-1995 ibm-297 IBM297 cp297 ebcdic-cp-fr csIBM297

 cpibm297 297

ibm-420_X120-1999 ibm-420 IBM420 cp420 ebcdic-cp-ar1 csIBM420 420 ibm-424_P100-1995 ibm-424 IBM424 cp424 ebcdic-cp-he csIBM424 424 ibm-500_P100-1995 ibm-500 IBM500 CP500 ebcdic-cp-be csIBM500

 ebcdic-cp-ch cpibm500 500

ibm-803_P100-1999 ibm-803 cp803 ibm-838_P100-1995 ibm-838 IBM-Thai csIBMThai cp838 838 ibm-9030 ibm-870_P100-1995 ibm-870 IBM870 CP870 ebcdic-cp-roece

 ebcdic-cp-yu csIBM870

ibm-871_P100-1995 ibm-871 IBM871 ebcdic-cp-is csIBM871 CP871

 ebcdic-is cpibm871 871

ibm-875_P100-1995 ibm-875 IBM875 cp875 875 ibm-918_P100-1995 ibm-918 IBM918 CP918 ebcdic-cp-ar2 csIBM918 ibm-930_P120-1999 ibm-930 ibm-5026 cp930 cpibm930 930 ibm-933_P110-1995 ibm-933 cp933 cpibm933 933 ibm-935_P110-1999 ibm-935 cp935 cpibm935 935 ibm-937_P110-1999 ibm-937 cp937 cpibm937 937 ibm-939_P120-1999 ibm-939 ibm-931 ibm-5035 cp939 939 ibm-1025_P100-1995 ibm-1025 cp1025 1025 ibm-1026_P100-1995 ibm-1026 IBM1026 CP1026 csIBM1026 1026 ibm-1047_P100-1995 ibm-1047 IBM1047 cpibm1047 ibm-1097_P100-1995 ibm-1097 cp1097 1097 ibm-1112_P100-1995 ibm-1112 cp1112 1112 ibm-1122_P100-1999 ibm-1122 cp1122 1122 ibm-1123_P100-1995 ibm-1123 cp1123 1123 cpibm1123 ibm-1130_P100-1997 ibm-1130 ibm-1132_P100-1998 ibm-1132 ibm-1140_P100-1997 ibm-1140 IBM01140 CCSID01140 CP01140 cp1140

 cpibm1140 ebcdic-us-37+euro

ibm-1141_P100-1997 ibm-1141 IBM01141 CCSID01141 CP01141 cp1141

 cpibm1141 ebcdic-de-273+euro

ibm-1142_P100-1997 ibm-1142 IBM01142 CCSID01142 CP01142 cp1142

 cpibm1142 ebcdic-dk-277+euro ebcdic-no-277+euro

ibm-1143_P100-1997 ibm-1143 IBM01143 CCSID01143 CP01143 cp1143

 cpibm1143 ebcdic-fi-278+euro ebcdic-se-278+euro

ibm-1144_P100-1997 ibm-1144 IBM01144 CCSID01144 CP01144 cp1144

 cpibm1144 ebcdic-it-280+euro

ibm-1145_P100-1997 ibm-1145 IBM01145 CCSID01145 CP01145 cp1145

 cpibm1145 ebcdic-es-284+euro

ibm-1146_P100-1997 ibm-1146 IBM01146 CCSID01146 CP01146 cp1146

 cpibm1146 ebcdic-gb-285+euro

ibm-1147_P100-1997 ibm-1147 IBM01147 CCSID01147 CP01147 cp1147

 cpibm1147 ebcdic-fr-297+euro

ibm-1148_P100-1997 ibm-1148 IBM01148 CCSID01148 CP01148 cp1148

 cpibm1148 ebcdic-international-500+euro

ibm-1149_P100-1997 ibm-1149 IBM01149 CCSID01149 CP01149 cp1149

 cpibm1149 ebcdic-is-871+euro

ibm-1153_P100-1999 ibm-1153 cpibm1153 ibm-1154_P100-1999 ibm-1154 cpibm1154 ibm-1155_P100-1999 ibm-1155 cpibm1155 ibm-1156_P100-1999 ibm-1156 cpibm1156 ibm-1157_P100-1999 ibm-1157 cpibm1157 ibm-1158_P100-1999 ibm-1158 cpibm1158 ibm-1160_P100-1999 ibm-1160 cpibm1160 ibm-1164_P100-1999 ibm-1164 cpibm1164 ibm-1364_P110-1997 ibm-1364 cp1364 ibm-1371_P100-1999 ibm-1371 cpibm1371 ibm-1388_P103-2001 ibm-1388 ibm-9580 ibm-1390_P110-2003 ibm-1390 cpibm1390 ibm-1399_P110-2003 ibm-1399 ibm-16684_P110-2003 ibm-16684 ibm-4899_P100-1998 ibm-4899 cpibm4899 ibm-4971_P100-1999 ibm-4971 cpibm4971 ibm-12712_P100-1998 ibm-12712 cpibm12712 ebcdic-he ibm-16804_X110-1999 ibm-16804 cpibm16804 ebcdic-ar ibm-1137_P100-1999 ibm-1137 ibm-5123_P100-1999 ibm-5123 ibm-8482_P100-1999 ibm-8482 ibm-37_P100-1995,swaplfnl ibm-37-s390 ibm037-s390 ibm-1047_P100-1995,swaplfnl ibm-1047-s390 ibm-1140_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1140-s390 ibm-1142_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1142-s390 ibm-1143_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1143-s390 ibm-1144_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1144-s390 ibm-1145_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1145-s390 ibm-1146_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1146-s390 ibm-1147_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1147-s390 ibm-1148_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1148-s390 ibm-1149_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1149-s390 ibm-1153_P100-1999,swaplfnl ibm-1153-s390 ibm-12712_P100-1998,swaplfnl ibm-12712-s390 ibm-16804_X110-1999,swaplfnl ibm-16804-s390 ebcdic-xml-us