17.20 - Supported Client Character Sets - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

The KANJI1 server character set is designed to support Japanese characters only when using specifically designed client character sets.

KANJI1 supports single-byte characters from the following client character sets:

• EBCDIC
• ASCII
• UTF8

  Only single-byte characters that are coded the same in the LATIN and JIS X 0201 standard can be used.

KANJI1 supports mixed single- and multibyte characters from the following client character sets:

• KanjiEBCDIC
  • Single-byte data uses JIS X 0201
  • Double-byte data uses SO/SI
• KanjiSJIS_0S
  • JIS X 0201
  • JIS X 0208
• Kanji1932_1S0
  • JIS X 0201
  • JIS X 0208
• KanjiEUC_0U
  • JIS X 0201

    Bytes 00-7F as defined

    Byte 8E mapped to 80

  • JIS X 0208 (converted to KanjiSJIS)
  • JIS X 0212

    Byte 8F mapped to FF

Only a limited set of characters stored as KANJI1 can be retrieved correctly by a client character set other than the one that entered the data. This limited set includes most 7-bit ASCII characters:

• The letters A-Z and a-z
• The digits 0-9
• Various punctuation, symbols, and control characters

In general, it does not include:

• Japanese characters
• The backslash (\)
• Yen sign
• Tilde
• Overline

Attempts to retrieve Japanese or other non-sharable characters from a KANJI1 field may result in error messages for the following character sets:

• UTF8
• UTF16
• Most site-defined client character sets using map files

For other character sets, attempts to retrieve Japanese or other non-sharable characters from a KANJI1 field may result in improperly translated data.