Supported Character Sets

This chapter describes the character sets supported in Tibero.

Supported Character Sets

Language	Character Set	Description
Universal	UTF8	8-bit International Standard Multilingual (Default value)
	UTF16	16-bit International Standard Multilingual
Korean	EUCKR	EUC 16-bit Korean
	MSWIN949	MS Windows Code Page 949 Korean
English	ASCII	ASCII 7-bit English
Japanese	SJIS	SHIFT-JIS 16-bit Japanese
	SJISTILDE	SHIFT-JIS 16-bit Japanese Including Fullwidth Tilde
	JA16SJIS	MS Windows Code Page 932 Japanese
	JA16SJISTILDE	MS Windows Code Page 932 Japanese Including Fullwidth Tilde
	JA16EUC	EUC 24-bit Japanese
	JA16EUCTILDE	EUC 24-bit Japanese
Chinese	GBK	MS Windows Code Page 936 Chinese
	GB18030	Chinese National Standard GB18030-2000
Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese	ZHT16HKSCS	HKSCS2001 Hong Kong
	ZHT16BIG5	BIG5 Code Page Chinese
	ZHT16MSWIN950	MS Windows Code Page 950 Chinese
	EUCTW	EUC 32-bit Traditional Chinese
Vietnamese	VN8VN3	VN3 8-bit Vietnamese
Thai	TH8TISASCII	Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533 - ASCII 8-bit
Eastern European	EE8ISO8859P2	ISO8859-2 Eastern European
Western European	WE8MSWIN1252	MS Windows Code Page 1252 Western European
	WE8ISO8859P1	ISO8859-1 Western European
	WE8ISO8859P9	ISO8859-9 Western European (Turkish)
	WE8ISO8859P15	ISO8859-15 Western European
Russian, Bulgarian	CL8MSWIN1251	MS Windows Code Page 1251 Cyrillic Script
	CL8KOI8R	KOI8-R Cyrillic Script
	CL8ISO8859P5	ISO8859-5 Cyrillic Script
	RU8PC866	IBM-PC Code Page 866 8-bit Cyrillic Script
Greek	EL8ISO8859P7	ISO8859-7 Greek
	EL8MSWIN1253	MS Windows Code Page 1253 8-bit Greek
Arabic	AR8ISO8859P6	ISO8859-6 Arabic
	AR8MSWIN1256	MS Windows Code Page 1256 8-bit Arabic
Hebrew	IW8ISO8859P8	ISO8859-8 Hebrew

The following example checks the available character sets for installing the Tibero binary.

$ tbboot -C

Available character set list 

    ASCII
    CL8ISO8859P5 
    CL8KOI8R 
    CL8MSWIN1251 
    EE8ISO8859P2 
    EUCKR
    ......Omitted......
    
Available nls_date_lang set list 

    AMERICAN
    BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE 
    JAPANESE
    KOREAN
......Omitted......