DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.5: User Guide
In most cases, you will select Default from the Encoding drop-down menu. The following table below explains the options available with the Encoding drop-down menu:
| Option | Character Set | Encoding Constant | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| hp-roman8 | Latin | 19 | An 8-bit Latin character set. |
| IBM437 | Latin | 32 | Original character set of the IBM PC. Also known as CP437. |
| IBM850 | Western Europe | 33 | A code page used in Western Europe. Also referred to as MS-DOS Code Page 850. |
| IBM1047 | EBCDIC Latin 1 | 10 | A code page used for Latin 1. |
| ISO-8859-1 | Latin 1 | 1 | A standard Latin alphabet character set. |
| ISO-8859-2 | Latin 2 | 2 | 8-bit character sets for Western alphabetic languages such as Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek. Commonly referred to as Latin 2. |
| ISO-8859-3 | Latin 3 | 13 | 8-bit character encoding. Formerly used to cover Turkish, Maltese, and Esperanto. Also known as "South European". |
| ISO-8859-4 | Latin 4 | 14 | 8-bit character encoding originally used for Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, and Sami. Also known as "North European". |
| ISO-8859-5 | Latin/Cyrillic | 3 | Cyrillic is an 8-bit character set that can be used for Bulgarian, Belarusian, and Russian. |
| ISO-8859-6 | Latin/Arabic | 9 | This is an 8-bit Arabic (limited) character set. |
| ISO-8859-7 | Latin/Greek | 4 | An 8-bit character encoding covering the modern Greek language along with mathematical symbols derived from Greek. |
| ISO-8859-8 | Latin/Hebrew | 11 | Contains all of the Hebrew letter without Hebrew vowel signs. Commonly known as MIME. |
| ISO-8859-9 | Turkish | 5 | This 8-bit character set covers Turkic and Icelandic. Also known as Latin-5. |
| ISO-8859-10 | Nordic | 15 | An 8-bit character set designed for Nordic languages. Also known as Latin-6. |
| ISO-8859-11 | Latin/Thai | 6 | An 8-bit character set covering Thai. May also use TIS-620. |
| ISO-8859-13 | Baltic | 16 | An 8-bit character set covering Baltic languages. Also known as Latin-7 or "Baltic Rim". |
| ISO-8859-14 | Celtic | 17 | An 8-bit character set covering Celtic languages like Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton. Known as Latin-8 or Celtic. |
| ISO-8859-15 | Latin 9 | 18 | An 8-bit character set for English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as other Western European languages. |
| KOI8-R | Russian | 12 | An 8-bit character set covering Russian. |
| Shift-JIS | Japanese | Based on character sets for single-byte and double-byte characters. Also known as JIS X 0208. | |
| TIS-620 | Thai | 20 | A character set used for the Thai language. |
| UCS-2BE | Big Endian | 7 | Means that the highest order byte is stored at the highest address. This is similar to UTF-16. |
| UCS-2LE | Little Endian | 8 | Means the lowest order byte of a number is stored in memory at the lowest address. This is similar to UTF-16. |
| US-ASCII | ASCII | 31 | ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character set based on the English alphabet. |
| UTF-8 | Unicode | An 8-bit variable length character set for Unicode. | |
| Windows-874 | Windows Thai | 21 | Microsoft Windows Thai code pagecharacter set. |
| Windows-1250 | Windows Latin 2 | 22 | Windows code page representing Central European languages like Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Romanian, and Albanian. This option can also be used for German. |
| Windows-1251 | 23 | ||
| Windows-1252 | Windows Latin 1 | 24 | Nearly identical with Windows-1250. |
| Windows-1253 | Windows Greek | 25 | A Windows code page used for modern Greek. |
| Windows-1254 | Windows Turkish | 26 | Represents the Turkish Windows code page. |
| Windows-1255 | Windows Hebrew | 27 | This code page is used to write Hebrew. |
| Windows-1256 | Windows Arabic | 28 | This Windows code page is used to write Arabic in Microsoft Windows. |
| Windows-1257 | Windows Baltic | 29 | Used to write Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian languages in Microsoft Windows. |
| Windows-1258 | Windows Vietnamese | 30 | This code page is used to write Vietnamese text. |
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