Supported codesets

This table lists the supported Coded Character Set Identifiers (CCSIDs) that are defined for IBM® Open Enterprise SDK for Python.

Table 1. Supported codesets for IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python
CCSID Encoding Alias' Languages supported
819 ascii 646, us-ascii English
947 big5 big5-tw, csbig5 Traditional Chinese
  big5hkscs big5-hkscs, hkscs Traditional Chinese
037 cp037 IBM037, IBM039 English
273 cp273   German
290 cp290   Japanese Katakana
424 cp424 EBCDIC-CP-HE, IBM424 Hebrew
437 cp437 437, IBM437 English
500 cp500 EBCDIC-CP-BE, EBCDIC-CP-CH, IBM500 Western Europe
720 cp720   Arabic
737 cp737 Greek
775 cp775 IBM775 Baltic languages
838 cp838    
850 cp850 850, IBM850 Western Europe
852 cp852 852, IBM852 Central and Eastern Europe
855 cp855 855, IBM855 Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian
856 cp856 Hebrew
857 cp857 857, IBM857 Turkish
860 cp860 860, IBM860 Portuguese
861 cp861 861, CP-IS, IBM861 Icelandic
862 cp862 862, IBM862 Hebrew
863 cp863 863, IBM863 Canadian
864 cp864 IBM864 Arabic
865 cp865 865, IBM865 Danish, Norwegian
866 cp866 866, IBM866 Russian
869 cp869 869, CP-GR, IBM869 Greek
874 cp874 Thai
875 cp875 Greek
932 cp932 932, ms932, mskanji, ms-kanji Japanese
949 cp949 949, ms949, uhc Korean
950 cp950 950, ms950 Traditional Chinese
1006 cp1006 Urdu
1026 cp1026 1026, ibm1026 Turkish
1047 cp1047 1047, ibm1047 Western Europe
1097 cp1097   Farsi
1125 cp1125 1125, ibm1125, cp866u, ruscii Ukrainian and Belarusian
1140 cp1140   Western Europe
1141 cp1141   Western Europe
1142 cp1142   Danish-Norwegian
1143 cp1143   Finnish-Swedish
1144 cp1144   Italian
1145 cp1145   Spanish
1146 cp1146   English(UK)
1147 cp1147   French
1148 cp1148   Western Europe
1149 cp1149   Icelandic
1250 cp1250 windows-1250 Central and Eastern Europe
1251 cp1251 windows-1251 Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian
1252 cp1252 windows-1252 Western Europe
1253 cp1253 windows-1253 Greek
1254 cp1254 windows-1254 Turkish
1255 cp1255 windows-1255 Hebrew
1256 cp1256 windows-1256 Arabic
1257 cp1257 windows-1257 Baltic languages
1258 cp1258 windows-1258 Vietnamese
1350 euc_jp eucjp, ujis, u-jis Japanese
9582 euc_jis_2004 jisx0213, eucjis2004 Japanese
9591 euc_jisx0213 eucjisx0213 Japanese
971 euc_kr euckr, korean, ksc5601, ks_c-5601, ks_c-5601-1987, ksx1001, ks_x-1001 Korean
  gb2312 chinese, csiso58gb231280, euc-cn, euccn, eucgb2312-cn, gb2312-1980, gb2312-80, iso-ir-58 Simplified Chinese
936 gbk 936, cp936, ms936 Unified Chinese
9444 gb18030 gb18030-2000 Unified Chinese
  hz hzgb, hz-gb, hz-gb-2312 Simplified Chinese
17336 iso2022_jp csiso2022jp, iso2022jp, iso-2022-jp Japanese
17337 iso2022_jp_1 iso2022jp-1, iso-2022-jp-1 Japanese
  iso2022_jp_2 iso2022jp-2, iso-2022-jp-2 Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Western Europe, Greek
  iso2022_jp_2004 iso2022jp-2004, iso-2022-jp-2004 Japanese
  iso2022_jp_3 iso2022jp-3, iso-2022-jp-3 Japanese
  iso2022_jp_ext iso2022jp-ext, iso-2022-jp-ext Japanese
  iso2022_kr csiso2022kr, iso2022kr, iso-2022-kr Korean
819 latin_1 iso-8859-1, iso8859-1, 8859, cp819, latin, latin1, L1 West Europe
25488 iso8859_2 iso-8859-2, latin2, L2 Central and Eastern Europe
  iso8859_3 iso-8859-3, latin3, L3 Esperanto, Maltese
  iso8859_4 iso-8859-4, latin4, L4 Baltic languagues
25491 iso8859_5 iso-8859-5, cyrillic Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian
  iso8859_6 iso-8859-6, arabic Arabic
  iso8859_7 iso-8859-7, greek, greek8 Greek
  iso8859_8 iso-8859-8, hebrew Hebrew
  iso8859_9 iso-8859-9, latin5, L5 Turkish
  iso8859_10 iso-8859-10, latin6, L6 Nordic languages
  iso8859_13 iso-8859-13 Baltic languages
  iso8859_14 iso-8859-14, latin8, L8 Celtic languages
  iso8859_15 iso-8859-15 Western Europe
  johab cp1361, ms1361 Korean
1167 koi8_r Russian
1168 koi8_u Ukrainian
1283 mac_cyrillic maccyrillic Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian
1280 mac_greek macgreek Greek
1286 mac_iceland maciceland Icelandic
1282 mac_latin2 maclatin2, maccentraleurope Central and Eastern Europe
1285 mac_roman macroman Western Europe
1281 mac_turkish macturkish Turkish
  ptcp154 csptcp154, pt154, cp154, cyrillic-asian Kazakh
  shift_jis csshiftjis, shiftjis, sjis, s_jis Japanese
  shift_jis_2004 shiftjis2004, sjis_2004, sjis2004 Japanese
1393 shift_jisx0213 shiftjisx0213, sjisx0213, s_jisx0213 Japanese
  utf_16 U16, utf16 all languages
13489 utf_16_be UTF-16BE all languages (BMP only)
13491 utf_16_le UTF-16LE all languages (BMP only)
  utf_7 U7 all languages
13497 utf_8 U8, UTF, utf8 all languages