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cloudscape.ui.codeset

Function

Set this property to a supported character encoding value when using one of the Cloudscape tools with a language not supported by your default system.

Syntax

cloudscape.ui.codeset=csval

where csval is a supported character encoding value, for example, UTF8 (see "Sample Character Encodings" in Table 4-1).

Example

The following command line specifies to run ij using the Japanese locale (locale=ja_JP), using Japanese Latin Kanji mixed encoding (codeset=Cp939), allowing Unicode escape sequences (unicodeEscape=on):

java -Dcloudscape.ui.locale=ja_JP -Dcloudscape.ui.codeset=Cp939
    -Dij.unicodeEscape=on -Dij.protocol=jdbc:cloudscape:
    COM.cloudscape.tools.ij

The following table contains a sampling of character encodings supported by JDK 1.x. To see the full list, go to http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/intl/html/intlspec.doc7.html.

Table 4-1 Sample Character Encodings

Character Encoding

Explanation

8859_1

ISO Latin-1

8859_2

ISO Latin-2

8859_7

ISO Latin/Greek

Cp1257

Windows Baltic

Cp1258

Windows Vietnamese

Cp437

PC Original

EUCJIS

Japanese EUC

GB2312

GB2312-80 Simplified Chinese

JIS

JIS

KSC5601

KSC5601 Korean

MacCroatian

Macintosh Croatian

MacCyrillic

Macintosh Cyrillic

SJIS

PC and Windows Japanese

UTF8

Standard UTF-8