Supported Character Sets - Non-Oracle

Identifier to use in parameter files and commands Character set
UTF-8

ISO-10646 UTF-8, surrogate pairs are 4 bytes per character

UTF-16

ISO-10646 UTF-16

UTF-16BE

UTF-16 Big Endian

UTF-16LE

UTF-16 Little Endian

UTF-32

ISO-10646 UTF-32

UTF-32BE

UTF-32 Big Endian

UTF-32LE

UTF-32 Little Endian

CESU-8

Similar to UTF-8, correspond to UCS-2 and surrogate pairs are 6 bytes per character

US-ASCII

US-ASCII, ANSI X34-1986

windows-1250

Windows Central Europe

windows-1251

Windows Cyrillic

windows-1252

Windows Latin-1

windows-1253

Windows Greek

windows-1254

Windows Turkish

windows-1255

Windows Hebrew

windows-1256

Windows Arabic

windows-1257

Windows Baltic

windows-1258

Windows Vietnam

windows-874

Windows Thai

cp437

DOS Latin-1

ibm-720

DOS Arabic

cp737

DOS Greek

cp775

DOS Baltic

cp850

DOS multilingual

cp851

DOS Greek-1

cp852

DOS Latin-2

cp855

DOS Cyrillic

cp856

DOS Cyrillic / IBM

cp857

DOS Turkish

cp858

DOS Multilingual with Euro

cp860

DOS Portuguese

cp861

DOS Icelandic

cp862

DOS Hebrew

cp863

DOS French

cp864

DOS Arabic

cp865

DOS Nordic

cp866

DOS Cyrillic / GOST 19768-87

ibm-867

DOS Hebrew / IBM

cp868

DOS Urdu

cp869

DOS Greek-2

ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-1 Latin-1/Western Europe

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-2 Latin-2/Eastern Europe

ISO-8859-3

ISO-8859-3 Latin-3/South Europe

ISO-8859-4

ISO-8859-4 Latin-4/North Europe

ISO-8859-5

ISO-8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic

ISO-8859-6

ISO-8859-6 Latin/Arabic

ISO-8859-7

ISO-8859-7 Latin/Greek

ISO-8859-8

ISO-8859-8 Latin/Hebrew

ISO-8859-9

ISO-8859-9 Latin-5/Turkish

ISO-8859-10

ISO-8859-10 Latin-6/Nordic

ISO-8859-11

ISO-8859-11 Latin/Thai

ISO-8859-13

ISO-8859-13 Latin-7/Baltic Rim

ISO-8859-14

ISO-8859-14 Latin-8/Celtic

ISO-8859-15

ISO-8859-15 Latin-9/Western Europe

IBM037

IBM 037-1/697-1 EBCDIC, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, US, and 037/1175 Traditional Chinese

IBM01140

IBM 1140-1/695-1 EBCDIC, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, US, and 1140/1175 Traditional Chinese

IBM273

IBM 273-1/697-1 EBCDIC, Austria, Germany

IBM01141

IBM 1141-1/695-1 EBCDIC, Austria, Germany

IBM277

IBM 277-1/697-1 EBCDIC, Denmark, Norway

IBM01142

IBM 1142-1/695-1 EBCIDC, Denmark, Norway

IBM278

IBM 278-1/697-1 EBCDIC, Finland, Sweden

IBM01143

IBM 1143-1/695-1 EBCDIC, Finland, Sweden

IBM280

IBM 280-1/697-1 EBCDIC, Italy

IBM01144

IBM 1144-1/695-1 EBCDIC, Italy

IBM284

IBM 284-1/697-1 EBCDIC, Latin America, Spain

IBM01145

IBM 1145-1/695-1 EBCDIC, Latin America, Spain

IBM285

IBM 285-1/697-1 EBCDIC, United Kingdom

IBM01146

IBM 1146-1/695-1 EBCDIC, United Kingdom

IBM290

IBM 290 EBCDIC, Japan (Katakana) Extended

IBM297

IBM 297-1/697-1 EBCDIC, France

IBM01147

IBM 1147-1/695-1 EBCDIC, France

IBM420

IBM 420 EBCDIC, Arabic Bilingual

IBM424

IBM 424/941 EBCDIC, Israel (Hebrew - Bulletin Code)

IBM500

IBM 500-1/697-1 EBCDIC, International

IBM01148

IBM 1148-1/695-1 EBCDIC International

IBM870

IBM 870/959 EBCDIC, Latin-2 Multilingual

IBM871

IBM 871-1/697-1 EBCDIC Iceland

IBM918

IBM EBCDIC code page 918, Arabic 2

IBM1149

IBM 1149-1/695-1, EBCDIC Iceland

IBM1047

IBM 1047/103 EBCDIC, Latin-1 (Open Systems)

ibm-803

IBM 803 EBCDIC, Israel (Hebrew - Old Code)

IBM875

IBM 875 EBCDIC, Greece

ibm-924

IBM 924-1/1353-1 EBCDIC International

ibm-1153

IBM 1153/1375 EBCDIC, Latin-2 Multilingual

ibm-1122

IBM 1122/1037 EBCDIC, Estonia

ibm-1157

IBM 1157/1391 EBCDIC, Estonia

ibm-1112

IBM 1112/1035 EBCDIC, Latvia, Lithuania

ibm-1156

IBM 1156/1393 EBCDIC, Latvia, Lithuania

ibm-4899

IBM EBCDIC code page 4899, Hebrew with Euro

ibm-12712

IBM 12712 EBCDIC, Hebrew (max set including Euro)

ibm-1097

IBM 1097 EBCDIC, Farsi

ibm-1018

IBM 1018 EBCDIC, Finland Sweden (ISO-7)

ibm-1132

IBM 1132 EBCDIC, Laos

ibm-1137

IBM EBCDIC code page 1137, Devanagari

ibm-1025

IBM 1025/1150 EBCDIC, Cyrillic

ibm-1154

IBM EBCDIC code page 1154, Cyrillic with Euro

IBM1026

IBM 1026/1152 EBCDIC, Latin-5 Turkey

ibm-1155

IBM EBCDIC code page 1155, Turkish with Euro

ibm-1123

IBM 1123 EBCDIC, Ukraine

ibm-1158

IBM EBCDIC code page 1158, Ukranian with Euro

IBM838

IBM 838/1173 EBCDIC, Thai

ibm-1160

IBM EBCDIC code page 1160, Thai with Euro

ibm-1130

IBM 1130 EBCDIC, Vietnam

ibm-1164

IBM EBCDIC code page 1164, Vietnamese with Euro

ibm-4517

IBM EBCDIC code page 4517, Arabic French

ibm-4971

IBM EBCDIC code page 4971, Greek

ibm-9067

IBM EBCDIC code page 9067, Greek 2005

ibm-16804

IBM EBCDIC code page 16804, Arabic

KOI8-R

Russian and Cyrillic (KOI8-R)

KOI8-U

Ukranian (KOI8-U)

eucTH

EUC Thai

ibm-1162

Windows Thai with Euro

DEC-MCS

DEC Multilingual

hp-roman8

HP Latin-1 Roman8

ibm-901

IBM Baltic ISO-8 CCSID 901

ibm-902

IBM Estonia ISO-8 with Euro CCSID 902

ibm-916

IBM ISO8859-8 CCSID

ibm-922

IBM Estonia ISO-8 CCSID 922

ibm-1006

IBM Urdu ISO-8 CCSID 1006

ibm-1098

IBM Farsi PC CCSID 1098

ibm-1124

Ukranian ISO-8 CCSID 1124

ibm-1125

Ukranian without Euro CCSID 1125

ibm-1129

IBM Vietnamese without Euro CCSID 1129

ibm-1131

IBM Belarusi CCSID 1131

ibm-1133

IBM Lao CCSID 1133

ibm-4909

IBM Greek Latin ASCII CCSID 4909

JIS_X201

JIS X201 Japanese

windows-932

Windows Japanese

windows-936

Windows Simplified Chinese

ibm-942

IBM Windows Japanese

windows-949

Windows Korean

windows-950

Windows Traditional Chinese

eucjis

EUC Japanese

EUC-JP

IBM/MS EUC Japanese

EUC-CN

EUC Simplified Chinese, GBK

EUC-KR

EUC Korean

EUC-TW

EUC Traditional Chinese

ibm-930

IBM 930/5026 Japanese

ibm-933

IBM 933 Korean

ibm-935

IBM 935 Simplified Chinese

ibm-937

IBM 937 Traditional Chinese

ibm-939

IBM 939/5035 Japanese

ibm-1364

IBM 1364 Korean

ibm-1371

IBM 1371 Traditional Chinese

ibm-1388

IBM 1388 Simplified Chinese

ibm-1390

IBM 1390 Japanese

ibm-1399

IBM 1399 Japanese

ibm-5123

IBM CCSID 5123 Japanese

ibm-8482

IBM CCSID 8482 Japanese

ibm-13218

IBM CCSID 13218 Japanese

ibm-16684

IBM CCSID 16684 Japanese

shiftjis

Japanese Shift JIS, Tilde 0x8160 mapped to U+301C

gb18030

GB-18030

GB2312

GB-2312-1980

GBK

GBK

HZ

HZ GB2312

Ibm-1381

IBM CCSID 1381 Simplified Chinese

Big5

Big5, Traditional Chinese

Big5-HKSCS

Big5, HongKong ext.

Big5-HKSCS2001

Big5, HongKong ext. HKSCS-2001

ibm-950

IBM Big5, CCSID 950

ibm-949

CCSID 949 Korean

ibm-949C

IBM CCSID 949 Korean, has backslash

ibm-971

IBM CCSID 971 Korean EUC, KSC5601 1989

x-IBM1363

IBM CCSID 1363, Korean