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Table 8. Languages and Code Pages (continued)
Country Code Language
en English
es Spanish
fi Finnish
fr French
gr Greek
hu Hungarian
il Hebrew
it Italian
jp Japanese
kr Korean
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
ru Russian
se Swedish
si Slovenian
tr Turkish
tw Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
Conversion of Character Data
When character data is transferred between machines, it must be converted to
a form that the receiving machine can use.
For example, when data is transferred between the DB2 Connect workstation
and a host or AS/400 database server, it is usually converted from a
workstation code page to a host CCSID, and vice versa. If the two machines
use different code pages or CCSIDs, code points are mapped from one code
page or CCSID to the other. This conversion is always performed at the
receiver.
Character data sent to a database consists of SQL statements and input data.
Character data sent from a database consists of output data. Output data that
is interpreted as bit data (for example, data from a column declared with the
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