Coded Character Sets

This section lists the character sets you can use as your target character set.

Coded Character Set Description Can be set as target charset?
KVCS_UNKNOWN Unknown character set N
KVCS_SJIS Japanese (uses multibyte encoding), cp932 Y
KVCS_GB Simplified Chinese (China, Singapore, Malaysia) cp936 Y
KVCS_BIG5 Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macaw) cp950 Y
KVCS_KSC Korean, cp949 Y
KVCS_1250 Windows Latin 2 (Central Europe) Y
KVCS_1251 Windows Cyrillic (Slavic) Y
KVCS_1252 Windows Latin 1 (ANSI) Y
KVCS_1253 Windows Greek Y
KVCS_1254 Windows Latin 5 (Turkish) Y
KVCS_1255 Windows Hebrew Y
KVCS_1256 Windows Arabic Y
KVCS_1257 Windows Baltic Rim Y
KVCS_1258 Windows Vietnamese Y
KVCS_8859_1 ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 (Western Europe, Latin America) Y
KVCS_8859_2 ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 (Central Eastern Europe) Y
KVCS_8859_3 ISO 8859-3 Latin 3 (S.E. Europe) Y
KVCS_8859_4 ISO 8859-4 Latin 4 (Scandinavia/Baltic) Y
KVCS_8859_5 ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic Y
KVCS_8859_6 ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic Y
KVCS_8859_7 ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek Y
KVCS_8859_8 ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew Y
KVCS_8859_9 ISO 8859-9 Latin/Turkish Y
KVCS_8859_14 ISO 8859-14 Y1
KVCS_8859_15 ISO 8859-15 Y
KVCS_437 DOS Latin US Y
KVCS_737 DOS Greek Y
KVCS_775 DOS Baltic Rim Y
KVCS_850 DOS Latin 1 Y
KVCS_851 DOS Greek Y
KVCS_852 DOS Latin 2 Y
KVCS_855 DOS Cyrillic Y
KVCS_857 DOS Turkish Y
KVCS_860 DOS Portuguese Y
KVCS_861 DOS Icelandic Y
KVCS_862 DOS Hebrew Y
KVCS_863 DOS Canadian French Y
KVCS_864 DOS Arabic Y
KVCS_865 DOS Nordic Y
KVCS_866 DOS Cyrillic Russian Y
KVCS_869 DOS Greek 2 Y
KVCS_874 Thai Y
KVCS_PDFMACDOC PDF MAC DOC N
KVCS_PDFWINDOC PDF WIN DOC N
KVCS_STDENC Adobe Standard Encoding N
KVCS_PDFDOC Adobe standard PDF character set N
KVCS_037 EBCDIC code page 037 Y
KVCS_1026 EBCDIC code page 1026 Y
KVCS_500 EBCDIC code page 500 Y
KVCS_875 EBCDIC code page 875 Y
KVCS_LMBCS Lotus multibyte character set Group 1 and Group 2 N
KVCS_UNICODE Unicode, UCS-2 Y
KVCS_UTF16 16-bit Unicode transformation format Y
KVCS_UTF8 8-bit Unicode transformation format Y
KVCS_UTF7 7-bit Unicode transformation format Y
KVCS_2022_JP ISO 2022-JP, Japanese mail and news safe encoding (JIS-7) N
KVCS_2022_CN ISO 2022-CN, Chinese mail and news safe encoding N
KVCS_2022_KR ISO 2022-KR, Korean mail and news safe encoding N
KVCS_WP6X Word Perfect 6.x and higher character mapping N
KVCS_10000 Western European (Macintosh) Y
KVCS_KSC5601 Unified Hangul Y
KVCS_GB2312 Simplified Chinese (China, Singapore, Hong Kong) Y
KVCS_GB12345 Traditional Chinese (China) - analogue of GB2312 Y2
KVCS_CNS11643 Traditional Chinese - Taiwan. Supplement to Big5 Y
KVCS_JIS0201 Japanese - contains ASCII character set (JIS-Roman) N
KVCS_JIS0212 Japanese. Supplement to JIS0208. Y
KVCS_EUC_JP Japanese Extended UNIX Code Y
KVCS_EUC_GB Simplified Chinese Extended UNIX Code Y
KVCS_EUC_BIG5 Traditional Chinese Extended UNIX Code N
KVCS_EUC_KSC Korean Extended UNIX Code N
KVCS_424 EBCDIC Hebrew N
KVCS_856 PC Hebrew (old) N
KVCS_1006 IBM AIX Pakistan (Urdu) N
KVCS_KOI8R Cyrillic (Russian) Y
KVCS_PDF_JAPAN1 Adobe-Japan1-2 character collection N
KVCS_PDF_KOREA1 Adobe-Korea1-0 character collection N
KVCS_PDF_GB1 Adobe-GB1-3 character collection N
KVCS_PDF_CNS1 Adobe-CNS1-2 character collection N
KVCS_2022_JP_8 ISO 2022-JP, Japanese mail and news safe encoding (JIS8) N
KVCS_720 Arabic DOS-720 Y
KVCS_VISCII Vietnamese VISCII Y3
KVCS_8859_10 ISO 8859-10 (Latin 6 Nordic) Y4 5
KVCS_8859_13 ISO 8859-13 (Latin 7 Baltic) Y 1
KVCS_57002 ISCII Devanagari (x-iscii-de) Y 1
KVCS_57003 ISCII Bengali (x-iscii-be) Y 1
KVCS_57004 ISCII Tamil (x-iscii-ta) Y1
KVCS_57005 ISCII Telugu (x-iscii-te) Y1
KVCS_57006 ISCII Assamese (x-iscii-as) Y1
KVCS_57007 ISCII Oriya (x-iscii-or) Y1
KVCS_57008 ISCII Kannada (x-iscii-ka) Y1
KVCS_57009 ISCII Malayalam (x-iscii-ma) Y1
KVCS_57010 ISCII Gujarathi (x-iscii-gu) Y1
KVCS_57011 ISCII Panjabi (x-iscii-pa) Y 1
KVCS_GB18030b2 Reserved for internal use n/a
KVCS_GB18030 GB18030 (Chinese 4-byte character set) Y
KVCS_8859_11 ISO 8859-11 (Thai) Y6
KVCS_8859_16 ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10 South-Eastern Europe) Y7
KVCS_ARABICMAC Arabic Mac (x-mac-arabic) Y
KVCS_KOI8U Cyrillic (KOI8U Ukrainian) Y
KVCS_HZGB2312 The 7-bit representation of GB 2312 / RFC 1842 n/a
KVCS_UTF32 32-bit Unicode transformation format Y