See the Open statement for usage.

Note The MIME names are case insensitive.

Charset Name	Description
UTF-8	8 bit encoding of ISO-10646.
UTF-16LE	16 bit little endian encoding of ISO-10646.
UTF-16BE	16 bit big endian encoding of ISO-10646.
UTF-16	16 bit platform native byte order encoding of ISO-10646.
ASCII	US 7-bit ASCII, ISO-646
Windows-1250	Windows character set for Central European languages.
Windows-1251	Windows character set for Cryllic languages.
Windows-1252	Windows character set for Western European languages.
Windows-1253	Windows character set for Greek.
Windows-1254	Windows character set for Turkish.
Windows-1255	Windows character set for Hebrew.
Windows-1256	Windows character set for Arabic languages.
Windows-1257	Windows character set for Baltic rim languages.
Windows-1258	Windows character set for Vietnamese.
Windows-874	Windows character set for Thai.
ISO-8859-1	ISO character set for Western European languages.
ISO-8859-2	ISO character set for Central European languages.
ISO-8859-3	ISO character set for Esperanto and Maltese.
ISO-8859-4	ISO character set for Baltic rim languages.
ISO-8859-5	ISO character set for Cryllic languages.
ISO-8859-6	ISO character set for Arabic languages.
ISO-8859-7	ISO character set for Greek.
ISO-8859-8	ISO character set for Hebrew.
ISO-8859-9	ISO character set for Turkish.
ISO-8859-15	ISO character set for Western European languages.
KOI8-R	Cryllic character set.
Shift_JIS	Japanese character set.
EUC-JP	Japanese character set.
EUC-KR	Korean character set.
Big5	Traditional Chinese character set.
GB2312	Simplified Chinese character set.
GB18030	Simplified Chinese character set.
LMBCS	Lotus Multi Byte Character Set.

Note With Release 6, ISO-8859-10, the ISO character set for Nordic languages is not supported.

EBCDIC charset names

Charset Name	Description
IBM037	US and Canadian English, Dutch, Protuguese
EBCDIC-US	Alias for IBM037
IBM273	German
IBM277	Danish, Norwegian
IBM278	Finnish, Swedish
IBM280	Italian
IBM284	Spanish
IBM285	International English
IBM297	French
IBM420	Arabic
IBM424	Hebrew
IBM500	Intl. Eglish, Latin-1, Albanian, Belgian English, French
IBM838	Thai
IBM870	Latin-2, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish
IBM871	Icelandic
IBM875	Greek
IBM1025	Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic
IBM1026	Turkish
IBM1047	Latin-1 Open Systems
IBM1112	Latvian, Lithuanian
IBM1122	Estonian
IBM930	Japanese Katakana
IBM933	Korean
IBM935	Simplified Chinese
IBM937	Traditional Chinese
IBM939	Japanese Latin
IBM1388	Simplified Chinese

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