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New character sets

Added in: 1.0, 1.5

The following table lists the character sets added in Firebird.

Table 4.1. Character sets new in Firebird

Name Bytes/char. Languages Added in
DOS737 1 Greek 1.5
DOS775 1 Baltic 1.5
DOS858 1 = DOS850 plus € sign 1.5
DOS862 1 Hebrew 1.5
DOS864 1 Arabic 1.5
DOS866 1 Russian 1.5
DOS869 1 Modern Greek 1.5
ISO8859_2 1 Latin-2, Central European 1.0
ISO8859_3 1 Latin-3, Southern European 1.5
ISO8859_4 1 Latin-4, Northern European 1.5
ISO8859_5 1 Cyrillic 1.5
ISO8859_6 1 Arabic 1.5
ISO8859_7 1 Greek 1.5
ISO8859_8 1 Hebrew 1.5
ISO8859_9 1 Latin-5, Turkish 1.5
ISO8859_13 1 Latin-7, Baltic Rim 1.5
WIN1255 1 Hebrew 1.5
WIN1256 1 Arabic 1.5
WIN1257 1 Baltic 1.5


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