UNIX Encoding Values

The encodings in the following tables are valid in UNIX environments.
Note: If an encoding value contains a hyphen (-), enclose the encoding value in quotation marks.
Single-Byte Encodings for UNIX
ENCODING= Value
Description
arabic
Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
cyrillic
Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5)
greek
Greek (ISO 8859-7)
hebrew
Hebrew (ISO 8859-8)
latin1
Western (ISO 8859-1)
latin2
Central Europe (ISO 8859-2)
latin5
Turkish (ISO 8859-9)
latin6
Baltic (ISO 8859-4)
latin8
Celtic (ISO 8859-14)
latin9
European (ISO 8859-15)
thai
Thai (ISO 8859-11)
Double-Byte Encodings for UNIX
ENCODING= Value
Description
big5
Traditional Chinese (Big5)
euc-cn
Simplified Chinese (EUC)
euc-jp
Japanese (EUC)
euc-kr
Korean (EUC)
euc-tw
Traditional Chinese (EUC)
shift-jis
Japanese (SJIS)
UNIX also supports the utf-8 Unicode encoding.
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