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Understanding locales
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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.
3 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.
Character set labels
The following table shows the valid character set label values, together with the
equivalent IANA labels and a description:
Character set
label IANA label Description
iso_1 iso_8859-1:1987 ISO 8859-1 Latin-1
cp850 <N/A> IBM CP850 - European code set
cp437 <N/A> IBM CP437 - U.S. code set
roman8 hp-rpman8 HP Roman-8
mac macintosh Standard Mac coding
sjis shift_jis Shift JIS (no extensions)
eucjis euc-jp Sun EUC JIS encoding
deckanji <N/A> DEC Unix JIS encoding
euccns <N/A> EUC CNS encoding: Traditional
Chinese with extensions
eucgb <N/A> EUC GB encoding = Simplified
Chinese
cp932 windows-31j Microsoft CP932 = Win31J-DBCS
iso88592 iso_8859-2:1987 ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Eastern Europe
iso88595 iso_8859-5:1988 ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
iso88596 iso_8859-6:1987 ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
iso88597 iso_8859-7:1987 ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
iso88598 iso_8859-8:1988 ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
iso88599 iso_8859-9:1989 ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
iso15 <N/A> ISO 8859-15 Latin1 with Euro, etc.
mac_cyr <N/A> Macintosh Cyrillic
mac_ee <N/A> Macintosh Eastern European