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+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.52 2005/03/13 01:30:59 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="charset">
<title>Localization</>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>SQL_ASCII</literal></entry>
- <entry><acronym>ASCII</acronym></entry>
- </row>
<row>
<entry><literal>BIG5</literal></entry>
<entry>Chinese</entry>
<entry>Aliases: WIN950, Windows950</entry>
</row>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>EUC_JP</literal></entry>
- <entry>Japanese <acronym>EUC</></entry>
- </row>
<row>
<entry><literal>EUC_CN</literal></entry>
<entry>Chinese <acronym>EUC</></entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>EUC_KR</literal></entry>
- <entry>Korean <acronym>EUC</></entry>
+ <entry><literal>EUC_JP</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Japanese <acronym>EUC</></entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>JOHAB</literal></entry>
- <entry>Korean <acronym>EUC</> (Hangle base)</entry>
+ <entry><literal>EUC_KR</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Korean <acronym>EUC</></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>EUC_TW</literal></entry>
<entry>Taiwan <acronym>EUC</acronym></entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>GB18030</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Chinese </entry>
+ </row>
<row>
<entry><literal>GBK</literal></entry>
<entry>Chinese <acronym>EUC</acronym></entry>
<entry>Aliases: WIN936, Windows936</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>GB18030</literal></entry>
- <entry>Chinese </entry>
+ <entry><literal>ISO_8859_5</literal></entry>
+ <entry>ISO 8859-5/<acronym>ECMA</> 113 (Latin/Cyrillic)</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>UTF8</literal></entry>
- <entry>UTF-8 (Unicode, 8-bit)</entry>
- <entry>Aliases: Unicode</entry>
+ <entry><literal>ISO_8859_6</literal></entry>
+ <entry>ISO 8859-6/<acronym>ECMA</> 114 (Latin/Arabic)</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>MULE_INTERNAL</literal></entry>
- <entry>Mule internal code (Multi-lingual Emacs)</entry>
+ <entry><literal>ISO_8859_7</literal></entry>
+ <entry>ISO 8859-7/<acronym>ECMA</> 118 (Latin/Greek)</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>ISO_8859_8</literal></entry>
+ <entry>ISO 8859-8/<acronym>ECMA</> 121 (Latin/Hebrew)</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>JOHAB</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Korean <acronym>EUC</> (Hangle base)</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>KOI8</literal></entry>
+ <entry><acronym>KOI</acronym>8-R(U) (Cyrillic)</entry>
+ <entry>Aliases: KOI8</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>LATIN1</literal></entry>
<entry>Aliases: ISO885916</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal>ISO_8859_5</literal></entry>
- <entry>ISO 8859-5/<acronym>ECMA</> 113 (Latin/Cyrillic)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>ISO_8859_6</literal></entry>
- <entry>ISO 8859-6/<acronym>ECMA</> 114 (Latin/Arabic)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>ISO_8859_7</literal></entry>
- <entry>ISO 8859-7/<acronym>ECMA</> 118 (Latin/Greek)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>ISO_8859_8</literal></entry>
- <entry>ISO 8859-8/<acronym>ECMA</> 121 (Latin/Hebrew)</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>KOI8</literal></entry>
- <entry><acronym>KOI</acronym>8-R(U) (Cyrillic)</entry>
- <entry>Aliases: KOI8</entry>
+ <entry><literal>MULE_INTERNAL</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Mule internal code (Multi-lingual Emacs)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><literal>SJIS</literal></entry>
<entry>SJIS (Japanese)</entry>
<entry>Aliases: Mskanji, ShiftJIS, WIN932, Windows932</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>SQL_ASCII</literal></entry>
+ <entry><acronym>ASCII</acronym></entry>
+ </row>
<row>
<entry><literal>UHC</literal></entry>
<entry>Unified Hangul Code (Korean)</entry>
<entry>Aliases: WIN949, Windows949</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>UTF8</literal></entry>
+ <entry>UTF-8 (Unicode, 8-bit)</entry>
+ <entry>Aliases: Unicode</entry>
+ </row>
<row>
<entry><literal>WIN866</literal></entry>
<entry>Windows CP866 (Cyrillic)</entry>
</tgroup>
</table>
- <important>
- <para>
- Before <productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2, <literal>LATIN5</>
- mistakenly meant ISO 8859-5. From 7.2 on, <literal>LATIN5</>
- means ISO 8859-9. If you have a <literal>LATIN5</> database
- created on 7.1 or earlier and want to migrate to 7.2 or later,
- you should be careful about this change.
- </para>
- </important>
-
<para>
Not all <acronym>API</>s support all the listed character sets. For example, the
<productname>PostgreSQL</>