Code pages

This table provides the following information about each code page: canonical name, description and CCSID.

A canonical name is converted to the corresponding CCSID so that a CICS® server can determine the code page location for a data stream. The CICS server must support EPI Version 2 for the encodings to be implemented. To find out which CCSIDs your CICS server supports check your CICS Server documentation.

Canonical name Description CCSID
Cp1252 Windows Latin-1 5348
ISO8859_1 ISO 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1 819
UTF8 Eight-bit Unicode Transformation format 1208
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange 437
Big5 Big 5, Traditional Chinese 950
Cp037 USA, Canada (Bilingual, French), Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Australia 37
Cp273 IBM® Austria, Germany 273
Cp277 IBM Denmark, Norway 277
Cp278 IBM Finland, Sweden 278
Cp280 IBM Italy 280
Cp284 IBM Catalan/Spain, Spanish Latin America 284
Cp285 IBM United Kingdom, Ireland 285
Cp297 IBM France 297
Cp420 IBM Arabic 420
Cp424 IBM Hebrew 424
Cp437 MS-DOS United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa 437
Cp500 EBCDIC 500V1 500
Cp838 IBM Thailand extended SBCS 9030
Cp850 MS-DOS Latin-1 850
Cp852 MS-DOS Latin-2 852
Cp855 IBM Cyrillic 855
Cp856 IBM Hebrew 856
Cp857 IBM Turkish 857
Cp858 Variant of Cp850 with euro character 858
Cp862 PC Hebrew 862
Cp864 PC Arabic 864
Cp865 MS-DOS Nordic 865
Cp866 MS-DOS Russian 866
Cp868 MS-DOS Pakistan 868
Cp869 IBM Modern Greek 869
Cp870 IBM Multilingual Latin-2 870
Cp871 IBM Iceland 871
Cp874 IBM Thai 9066
Cp875 IBM Greek 875
Cp918 IBM Pakistan (Urdu) 918
Cp921 IBM Latvia, Lithuania (AIX®, DOS) 921
Cp922 IBM Estonia (AIX, DOS) 922
Cp923 IBM Latin-9 923
Cp930 Japanese Katakana-Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, superset of 5026 930
Cp933 Korean Mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5029 933
Cp935 Simplified Chinese Host mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5031 935
Cp937 Traditional Chinese Host mixed with 6204 UDC, superset of 5033 937
Cp939 Japanese Latin Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, superset of 5035 939
Cp942 IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 942
Cp942C Variant of Cp942 942
Cp943 IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 and Shift-JIS 943
Cp943C Variant of Cp943 943
Cp948 OS/2 Chinese (Taiwan) superset of 938 948
Cp949 PC Korean 949
Cp949C Variant of Cp949 949
Cp950 PC Chinese (Hong Kong, Taiwan) 950
Cp964 AIX Chinese (Taiwan) 964
Cp970 AIX Korean 970
Cp1006 IBM AIX Pakistan (Urdu) 1006
Cp1025 IBM Multilingual Cyrillic: Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovinia, Macedonia (FYR) 1025
Cp1026 IBM Latin-5, Turkey 1026
Cp1097 IBM Iran (Farsi)/Persian 1097
Cp1098 IBM Iran (Farsi)/Persian 1098
Cp1112 IBM Latvia, Lithuania 1112
Cp1122 IBM Estonia 1122
Cp1123 IBM Ukraine 1123
Cp1124 IBM AIX Ukraine 1124
Cp1140 Variant of Cp037 with euro character 1140
Cp1141 Variant of Cp273 with euro character 1141
Cp1142 Variant of Cp277 with euro character 1142
Cp1143 Variant of Cp278 with euro character 1143
Cp1144 Variant of Cp280 with euro character 1144
Cp1145 Variant of Cp284 with euro character 1145
Cp1146 Variant of Cp285 with euro character 1146
Cp1147 Variant of Cp297 with euro character 1147
Cp1148 Variant of Cp500 with euro character 1148
Cp1149 Variant of Cp871 with euro character 1149
Cp1250 Windows Eastern European 5346
Cp1251 Windows Cyrillic 5347
Cp1253 Windows Greek 5349
Cp1254 Windows Turkish 5350
Cp1255 Windows Hebrew 5351
Cp1256 Windows Arabic 5352
Cp1257 Windows Baltic 5353
Cp1258 Windows Vietnamese 5354
Cp1381 IBM OS/2, DOS People's Republic of China (PRC) 1381
Cp1383 IBM AIX, People's Republic of China (PRC) 1383
EUC_CN GB2312, EUC encoding, Simplified Chinese 1383
EUC_JP JIS X 0201, 0208, 0212, EUC encoding, Japanese 954
EUC_KR KS C 5601, EUC encoding, Korean 970
GBK GBK, Simplified Chinese 1386
ISO8859_2 ISO 8859-2, Latin alphabet No. 2 912
ISO8859_5 ISO 8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic alphabet 915
ISO8859_6 ISO 8859-6, Latin/Arabic alphabet 1089
ISO8859_7 ISO 8859-7, Latin/Greek alphabet 813
ISO8859_8 ISO 8859-8, Latin/Hebrew alphabet 916
ISO8859_9 ISO 8859-9, Latin alphabet No. 5 920
ISO8859_15_FDIS ISO 8859-15, Latin alphabet No. 9 923
JIS0201 JIS X 0201, Japanese 5050
JIS0208 JIS X 0208, Japanese 5050
JIS0212 JIS X 0212, Japanese 5050
EUC_TW CNS 11643 (Plane 1-3), EUC encoding, Traditional Chinese 964
MS932 Windows Japanese 943
MS936 Windows Simplified Chinese 1386
MS949 Windows Korean 1363

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