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Firebird 1.5 Character Sets & Collations

ID Name Bytes
per Char		 Collation Language Aliases
2 ASCII 1 ASCII English ASCII7, USASCII
56 BIG_5 2 BIG_5 Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean BIG5, DOS_950, WIN_950
50 CYRL 1 CYRL Russian --
50 -- -- DB_RUS Dbase Russian --
50 -- -- PDOX_CYRL Paradox Russian --
10 DOS437 1 DOS437 English (USA) DOS_437
10 -- -- DB_DEU437 DBase German --
10 -- -- DB_ESP437 DBase Spanish --
10 -- -- DB_FRA437 DBase French --
10 -- -- DB_FIN437 DBase Finnish --
10 -- -- DB_ITA437 DBase Italian --
10 -- -- DB_NLD437 DBase Dutch --
10 -- -- DB_SVE437 DBase Swedish --
10 -- -- DB_UK437 DBase English (UK) --
10 -- -- DB_US437 DBase English (USA) --
10 -- -- PDOX_ASCII Paradox ASCII code page --
10 -- -- PDOX_SWEDFIN Paradox Swedish/Finnish code pages --
10 -- -- PDOX_INTL Paradox International English code page --
9 DOS737 1 DOS737 Greek DOS_737
15 DOS775 1 DOS775 Baltic DOS_775
11 DOS850 1 DOS850 Latin I (no Euro symbol) DOS_850
11 -- -- DB_DEU850 German --
11 -- -- DB_ESP850 Spanish --
11 -- -- DB_FRA850 French --
11 -- -- DB_FRC850 French (Canada) --
11 -- -- DB_ITA850 Italian --
11 -- -- DB_NLD850 Dutch --
11 -- -- DB_PTB850 Portuguese (Brazil) --
11 -- -- DB_SVE850 Swedish --
11 -- -- DB_UK850 English (UK) --
11 -- -- DB_US850 English (USA) --
45 DOS852 1 DOS852 Latin II DOS_852
45 -- -- DB_CSY DBase Czech --
45 -- -- DB_PLK DBase Polish --
45 -- -- DB_SLO DBase Slovakian --
45 -- -- PDOX_PLK Paradox Polish --
45 -- -- PDOX_HUN Paradox Hungarian --
45 -- -- PDOX_SLO Paradox Slovakian --
45 -- -- PDOX_CSY Paradox Czech --
46 DOS857 1 DOS857 Turkish DOS_857
46 -- -- DB_TRK DBase Turkish --
16 DOS858 1 DOS858 Latin I + Euro symbol DOS_858
13 DOS860 1 DOS860 Portuguese DOS_860
13 -- -- DB_PTG860 DBase Portuguese --
47 DOS861 1 DOS861 Icelandic DOS_861
47 -- -- PDOX_ISL Paradox Icelandic --
17 DOS862 1 DOS862 Hebrew DOS_862
14 DOS863 1 DOS863 French (Canada) DOS_863
14 -- -- DB_FRC863 DBase French (Canada) --
18 DOS864 1 DOS864 Arabic DOS_864
12 DOS865 1 DOS865 Nordic DOS_865
12 -- -- DB_DAN865 DBase Danish --
12 -- -- DB_NOR865 DBase Norwegian --
12 -- -- PDOX_NORDAN4 Paradox Norwegian & Danish --
48 DOS866 1 DOS866 Russian DOS_866
49 DOS869 1 DOS869 Modern Greek DOS_869
6 EUCJ_0208 2 EUCJ_0208 EUC Japanese EUCJ
57 GB_2312 2 GB_2312 Simplified Chinese (Hong Kong, PRC) DOS_936, GB2312, WIN_936
21 ISO8859_1 1 ISO8859_1 Latin 1 ANSI, ISO88591, LATIN1
21 -- -- FR_CA French (Canada) --
21 -- -- DA_DA Danish --
21 -- -- DE_DE German --
21 -- -- ES_ES Spanish --
21 -- -- FI_FI Finnish --
21 -- -- FR_FR French --
21 -- -- IS_IS Icelandic --
21 -- -- IT_IT Italian --
21 -- -- NO_NO Norwegian --
21 -- -- DU_NL Dutch --
21 -- -- PT_PT Portuguese --
21 -- -- SV_SV Swedish --
21 -- -- EN_UK English (UK) --
21 -- -- EN_US English (USA) --
22 ISO8859_2 1 ISO8859_2 Latin 2 —  Central European (Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian) ISO-8859-2, ISO88592, LATIN2
22 -- -- CS_CZ Czech --
22 -- -- ISO_HUN Hungarian --
23 ISO8859_3 1 ISO8859_3 Latin3 — Southern European (Maltese, Esperanto) ISO-8859-3, ISO88593, LATIN3
34 ISO8859_4 1 ISO8859_4 Latin 4 — Northern European (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, Lappish) ISO-8859-4, ISO88594, LATIN4
35 ISO8859_5 1 ISO8859_5 Cyrillic (Russian) ISO-8859-5, ISO88595
36 ISO8859_6 1 ISO8859_6 Arabic ISO-8859-6, ISO88596
37 ISO8859_7 1 ISO8859_7 Greek ISO-8859-7, ISO88597
38 ISO8859_8 1 ISO8859_8 Hebrew ISO-8859-8, ISO88598
39 ISO8859_9 1 ISO8859_9 Latin 5 ISO-8859-9, ISO88599, LATIN5
40 ISO8859_13 1 ISO8859_13 Latin 7 — Baltic Rim ISO-8859-13, ISO885913, LATIN7
44 KSC_5601 2 KSC_5601 Korean (Unified Hangeul) DOS_949, KSC5601, WIN_949
44 -- -- KSC_DICTIONARY Korean — dictionary order collation --
19 NEXT 1 NEXT NeXTSTEP encoding --
19 -- -- NXT_US English (USA) --
19 -- -- NXT_FRA French --
19 -- -- NXT_ITA Italian --
19 -- -- NXT_ESP Spanish --
19 -- -- NXT_DEU German --
0 NONE 1 NONE Codepage-neutral. Uppercasing limited to ASCII codes 97-122 --
1 OCTETS 1 OCTETS Binary character BINARY
5 SJIS_0208 2 SJIS_0208 Japanese SJIS
3 UNICODE_FSS 3 UNICODE_FSS UNICODE SQL_TEXT, UTF-8, UTF8, UTF_FSS
51 WIN1250 1 WIN1250 ANSI — Central European WIN_1250
51 -- -- PXW_PLK Polish --
51 -- -- PXW_HUN Hungarian --
51 -- -- PXW_CSY Czech --
51 -- -- PXW_HUNDC Hungarian — dictionary sort --
51 -- -- PXW_SLOV Slovakian --
52 WIN1251 1 WIN1251 ANSI — Cyrillic WIN_1251
52 -- -- WIN1251_UA Ukrainian --
52 -- -- PXW_CYRL Paradox Cyrillic (Russian) --
53 WIN1252 1 WIN1252 ANSI — Latin I WIN_1252
53 -- -- PXW_SWEDFIN Swedish & Finnish --
53 -- -- PXW_NORDAN4 Norwegian & Danish --
53 -- -- PXW_INTL English (International) --
53 -- -- PXW_INTL850 Paradox Multi-lingual Latin I --
53 -- -- PXW_SPAN Paradox Spanish --
54 WIN1253 1 WIN1253 ANSI Greek WIN_1253
54 -- -- PXW_GREEK Paradox Greek --
55 WIN1254 1 WIN1254 ANSI Turkish WIN_1254
55 -- -- PXW_TURK Paradox Turkish --
58 WIN1255 1 WIN1255 ANSI Hebrew WIN_1255
59 WIN1256 1 WIN1256 ANSI Arabic WIN_1256
60 WIN1257 1 WIN1257 ANSI Baltic WIN_1257

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