Compatible code set names
The following table lists code set names that are compatible. Each line defines to/from strings that may be used when requesting a converter.
Note: The PC and ISO code sets are ASCII-based.
| Character Set | Languages | PC | ISO | EBCDIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin-1 | U.S. English, Portuguese, Canadian French | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-037 |
| Latin-1 | Danish, Norwegian | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-277 |
| Latin-1 | Finnish, Swedish | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-278 |
| Latin-1 | Italian | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-280 |
| Latin-1 | Japanese | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-281 |
| Latin-1 | Spanish | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-284 |
| Latin-1 | U.K. English | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-285 |
| Latin-1 | German | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-273 |
| Latin-1 | French | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-297 |
| Latin-1 | Belgian, Swiss German | N/A | ISO8859-1 | IBM-500 |
| Latin-2 | Croatian, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovene | IBM-852 | ISO88859-2 | IBM-870 |
| Cyrillic | Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian Cyrillic, Russian | IBM-855 | ISO8859-5 | IBM-880 IBM-1025 |
| Cyrillic | Russian | IBM-866 | ISO8859-5 | IBM-1025 |
| Hebrew | Hebrew | IBM-856 IBM-862 | ISO8859-8 | IBM-424 IBM-803 |
| Turkish | Turkish | IBM-857 | ISO8859-9 | IBM-1026 |
| Arabic | Arabic | IBM-864 IBM-1046 | ISO8859-6 | IBM-420 |
| Greek | Greek | IBM-869 | ISO8859-7 | IBM-875 |
| Greek | Greek | IBM-869 | ISO8859-7 | IBM-875 |
| Baltic | Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian | IBM-921 IBM-922 | ISO8859-4 | IBM-1112 IBM-1122 |
Note: A character that exists in the source code set but does not
exist in the target code set is converted to a converter-defined substitute
character.