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International Character Sets

A. dos Santos Fernandes & Others

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New Character Sets and Collations Implemented
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ICU Character Sets

New Character Sets and Collations Implemented

The following new character set and/or collation implementations have been added in Firebird 2 releases:

Character Set Collation Description Implemented By
ISO8859_1 ES_ES_CI_AI Spanish language case- and accent-insensitive collation for ISO8859_1 character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes
" PT_BR Brazil Portuguese collation for ISO8859_1 character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes, P. H. Albanez
ISO8859_2 ISO_PLK Polish collation for ISO8859_2 character set. J. Glowacki, A. dos Santos Fernandes
KOI8R KOI8_RU Russian language character set and dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin
KOI8U KOI8U_UA Ukrainian language character set and dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin
WIN1250 BS_BA Bosnian language collation for WIN1250 character set. F. Hasovic
" WIN_CZ_AI Czech language accent-insensitive collation for WIN1250 character set I. Prenosil, A. dos Santos Fernandes
" WIN_CZ_CI_AI Czech language case- and accent-insensitive collation for WIN1250 character set I. Prenosil, A. dos Santos Fernandes
WIN1252 WIN_PTBR Brazil Portuguese collation for WIN1252 character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes, P. H. Albanez
WIN1257 WIN1257_LV Latvian dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin
" WIN1257_LT Lithuanian dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin
" WIN1257_EE Estonian dictionary collation. O. Loa, A. Karyakin
WIN1258 (n/a) Vietnamese language subset of charset WIN1258. Nguyen The Phuong, A. dos Santos Fernandes
UTF8 UCS_BASIC Unicode 4.0 support with UTF8 character set and UCS_BASIC collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes
" UNICODE Unicode 4.0 support with UTF8 character set and UNICODE collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes
" UNICODE_CI Unicode 4.0 support with UTF8 character set and case-insensitive collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes
ISO8859_1 FR_FR_CI_AI (V.2.1) French language case-insensitive and accent-insensitive collation. A. dos Santos Fernandes
CP943C CP943C_UNICODE (V.2.1) Japanese character set. A. dos Santos Fernandes
TIS620 TIS620_UNICODE (V.2.1) Thai character set, single byte. (Not known)

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