default_charset_value parameter

The default_charset_value parameter defines the default character value that is used while creating exports and imports.

Parameter values

Note: Do not include blank spaces in the value for this parameter.
Values
Character set value
Default values
Cp1252

Example

default_charset_value=Cp1252

Character sets

The following table contains a list of character set names and the corresponding character set values:

Table 1. Default character set names and corresponding default character set values
default_charset_name default_charset_value
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII
Big5: Traditional Chinese Big5
Big5_HKSCS: Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese Big5_HKSCS
Cp037: USA, Canada (Bilingual, French), Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Australia Cp037
Cp273: IBM® Austria, Germany Cp273
Cp277: IBM Denmark, Norway Cp277
Cp278: IBM Finland, Sweden Cp278
Cp280: IBM Italy Cp280
Cp284: IBM Catalan/Spain, Spanish Latin America Cp284
Cp285: IBM United Kingdom, Ireland Cp285
Cp297: IBM France Cp297
Cp420: IBM Arabic Cp420
Cp424: IBM Hebrew Cp424
Cp437: MS-DOS United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa Cp437
Cp500: EBCDIC 500V1 Cp500
Cp737: PC Greek Cp737
Cp775: PC Baltic Cp775
Cp838: IBM Thailand extended SBCS Cp838
Cp850: MS-DOS Latin-1 Cp850
Cp852: MS-DOS Latin-2 Cp852
Cp855: IBM Cyrillic Cp855
Cp856: IBM Hebrew Cp856
Cp857: IBM Turkish Cp857
Cp858: Variant of Cp850 with Euro character Cp858
Cp860: MS-DOS Portuguese Cp860
Cp861: MS-DOS Icelandic Cp861
Cp862: PC Hebrew Cp862
Cp863: MS-DOS Canadian French Cp863
Cp864: PC Arabic Cp864
Cp865: MS-DOS Nordic Cp865
Cp866: MS-DOS Russian Cp866
Cp868: MS-DOS Pakistan Cp868
Cp869: IBM Modern Greek Cp869
Cp870: IBM Multilingual Latin-2 Cp870
Cp871: IBM Iceland Cp871
Cp874: IBM Thai Cp874
Cp875: IBM Greek Cp875
Cp918: IBM Pakistan (Urdu) Cp918
Cp921: IBM Latvia, Lithuania (AIX®, DOS) Cp921
Cp922: IBM Estonia (AIX, DOS) Cp922
Cp930: Japanese Katakana-Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, superset of 5026 Cp930
Cp933: Korean Mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5029 Cp933
Cp935: Simplified Chinese Host mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5031 Cp935
Cp937: Traditional Chinese Host mixed with 6204 UDC, superset of 5033 Cp937
Cp939: Japanese Latin Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, superset of 5035 Cp939
Cp942: IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 Cp942
Cp942C: Variant of Cp942 Cp942C
Cp943: IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 and Shift-JIS Cp943
Cp943C: Variant of Cp943 Cp943C
Cp948: OS/2 Chinese (Taiwan) superset of 938 Cp948
Cp949: PC Korean Cp949
Cp949C: Variant of Cp949 Cp949C
Cp950: PC Chinese (Hong Kong, Taiwan) Cp950
Cp964: AIX Chinese (Taiwan) Cp964
Cp970: AIX Korean Cp970
Cp1006: IBM AIX Pakistan (Urdu) Cp1006
Cp1025: IBM Multilingual Cyrillic: Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovinia, Macedonia (FYR) Cp1025
Cp1026: IBM Latin-5, Turkey Cp1026
Cp1046: IBM Arabic - Windows Cp1046
Cp1097: IBM Iran (Farsi)/Persian Cp1097
Cp1098: IBM Iran (Farsi)/Persian (PC) Cp1098
Cp1112: IBM Latvia, Lithuania Cp1112
Cp1122: IBM Estonia Cp1122
Cp1123: IBM Ukraine Cp1123
Cp1124: IBM AIX Ukraine Cp1124
Cp1140: Variant of Cp037 with Euro character Cp1140
Cp1141: Variant of Cp273 with Euro character Cp1141
Cp1142: Variant of Cp277 with Euro character Cp1142
Cp1143: Variant of Cp278 with Euro character Cp1143
Cp1144: Variant of Cp280 with Euro character Cp1144
Cp1145: Variant of Cp284 with Euro character Cp1145
Cp1146: Variant of Cp285 with Euro character Cp1146
Cp1147: Variant of Cp297 with Euro character Cp1147
Cp1148: Variant of Cp500 with Euro character Cp1148
Cp1149: Variant of Cp871 with Euro character Cp1149
Cp1250: Windows Eastern European Cp1250
Cp1251: Windows Cyrillic Cp1251
Cp1252: Windows Latin-1 Cp1252
Cp1253: Windows Greek Cp1253
Cp1254: Windows Turkish Cp1254
Cp1255: Windows Hebrew Cp1255
Cp1256: Windows Arabic Cp1256
Cp1257: Windows Baltic Cp1257
Cp1258: Windows Vietnamese Cp1258
Cp1381: IBM OS/2, DOS People's Republic of China (PRC) Cp1381
Cp1383: IBM AIX People's Republic of China (PRC) Cp1383
Cp33722: IBM-eucJP - Japanese (superset of 5050) Cp33722
EUC_CN: GB2312, EUC encoding, Simplified Chinese EUC_CN
EUC_JP: JIS X 0201, 0208, 0212, EUC encoding, Japanese EUC_JP
EUC_JP_LINUX: JIS X 0201, 0208, EUC encoding, Japanese EUC_JP_LINUX
EUC_KR: KS C 5601, EUC encoding, Korean EUC_KR
EUC_TW: CNS11643 (Plane 1-3), EUC encoding, Traditional Chinese EUC_TW
GBK: GBK, Simplified Chinese GBK
ISO-2022-JP: JIS X 0201, 0208 in ISO 2022 form, Japanese ISO-2022-JP
ISO-2022-KR: ISO 2022 KR, Korean ISO-2022-KR
ISO8859_1: ISO 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1 ISO8859_1
ISO8859_2: ISO 8859-2, Latin alphabet No. 2 ISO8859_2
ISO8859_3: ISO 8859-3, Latin alphabet No. 3 ISO8859_3
ISO8859_4: ISO 8859-4, Latin alphabet No. 4 ISO8859_4
ISO8859_5: ISO 8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic alphabet ISO8859_5
ISO8859_6: ISO 8859-6, Latin/Arabic alphabet ISO8859_6
ISO8859_7: ISO 8859-7, Latin/Greek alphabet ISO8859_7
ISO8859_8: ISO 8859-8, Latin/Hebrew alphabet ISO8859_8
ISO8859_9: ISO 8859-9, Latin alphabet No. 5 ISO8859_9
ISO8859_13: ISO 8859-13, Latin alphabet No. 7 ISO8859_13
ISO8859_15_FDIS: ISO 8859-15, Latin alphabet No. 9 ISO8859_15_FDIS
JIS0201: JIS X 0201, Japanese JIS0201
JIS0208: JIS X 0208, Japanese JIS0208
JIS0212: JIS X 0212, Japanese JIS0212
Johab: Johab, Korean Johab
KOI8_R: KOI8-R, Russian KOI8_R
MS874: Windows Thai MS874
MS932: Windows Japanese MS932
MS936: Windows Simplified Chinese MS936
MS949: Windows Korean MS949
MS950: Windows Traditional Chinese MS950
MacArabic: Macintosh Arabic MacArabic
MacCentralEurope: Macintosh Latin-2 MacCentralEurope
MacCroatian: Macintosh Croatian MacCroatian
MacCyrillic: Macintosh Cyrillic MacCyrillic
MacDingbat: Macintosh Dingbat MacDingbat
MacGreek: Macintosh Greek MacGreek
MacHebrew: Macintosh Hebrew MacHebrew
MacIceland: Macintosh Iceland MacIceland
MacRoman: Macintosh Roman MacRoman
MacRomania: Macintosh Romania MacRomania
MacSymbol: Macintosh Symbol MacSymbol
MacThai: Macintosh Thai MacThai
MacTurkish: Macintosh Turkish MacTurkish
MacUkraine: Macintosh Ukraine MacUkraine
SJIS: Shift-JIS, Japanese SJIS
TIS620: TIS620, Thai TIS620
UnicodeBig: Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order, with byte-order mark UnicodeBig
UnicodeBigUnmarked: Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order UnicodeBigUnmarked
UnicodeLittle: Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order, with byte-order mark UnicodeLittle
UnicodeLittleUnmarked: Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order UnicodeLittleUnmarked
UTF-8: Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format UTF-8
UTF-16: Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark UTF-16