LOTUSSCRIPT LANGUAGE

MIME Charset Names
This chapter lists the acceptable MIME charset values for the Charset parameter of the Open statement.

See the Open statement for usage.

Note The MIME names are case insensitive.

Charset NameDescription
UTF-88 bit encoding of ISO-10646.
UTF-16LE16 bit little endian encoding of ISO-10646.
UTF-16BE16 bit big endian encoding of ISO-10646.
UTF-1616 bit platform native byte order encoding of ISO-10646.
ASCIIUS 7-bit ASCII, ISO-646
Windows-1250Windows character set for Central European languages.
Windows-1251Windows character set for Cryllic languages.
Windows-1252Windows character set for Western European languages.
Windows-1253Windows character set for Greek.
Windows-1254Windows character set for Turkish.
Windows-1255Windows character set for Hebrew.
Windows-1256Windows character set for Arabic languages.
Windows-1257Windows character set for Baltic rim languages.
Windows-1258Windows character set for Vietnamese.
Windows-874Windows character set for Thai.
ISO-8859-1ISO character set for Western European languages.
ISO-8859-2ISO character set for Central European languages.
ISO-8859-3ISO character set for Esperanto and Maltese.
ISO-8859-4ISO character set for Baltic rim languages.
ISO-8859-5ISO character set for Cryllic languages.
ISO-8859-6ISO character set for Arabic languages.
ISO-8859-7ISO character set for Greek.
ISO-8859-8ISO character set for Hebrew.
ISO-8859-9ISO character set for Turkish.
ISO-8859-15ISO character set for Western European languages.
KOI8-RCryllic character set.
Shift_JISJapanese character set.
EUC-JPJapanese character set.
EUC-KRKorean character set.
Big5Traditional Chinese character set.
GB2312Simplified Chinese character set.
GB18030Simplified Chinese character set.
LMBCSLotus Multi Byte Character Set.
Note With Release 6, ISO-8859-10, the ISO character set for Nordic languages is not supported.

EBCDIC charset names

Charset NameDescription
IBM037US and Canadian English, Dutch, Protuguese
EBCDIC-USAlias for IBM037
IBM273German
IBM277Danish, Norwegian
IBM278Finnish, Swedish
IBM280Italian
IBM284Spanish
IBM285International English
IBM297French
IBM420Arabic
IBM424Hebrew
IBM500Intl. Eglish, Latin-1, Albanian, Belgian English, French
IBM838Thai
IBM870Latin-2, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
IBM871Icelandic
IBM875Greek
IBM1025Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic
IBM1026Turkish
IBM1047Latin-1 Open Systems
IBM1112Latvian, Lithuanian
IBM1122Estonian
IBM930Japanese Katakana
IBM933Korean
IBM935Simplified Chinese
IBM937Traditional Chinese
IBM939Japanese Latin
IBM1388Simplified Chinese