Supported Character Sets - Teradata Preprocessor2

Teradata® Preprocessor2 for Embedded SQL Programmer Guide

Product
Teradata Preprocessor2
Release Number
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-06-19
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

There is support for Chinese and Korean character sets. UTF-16 support is available on Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and mainframe system environments.

When Teradata-defined character sets are not appropriate for the site, create site-defined character sets. See the following tables for details.

See Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Fundamentals, B035-1141 to learn about international character sets, character set restrictions, export rules, and defining your own character sets.

Teradata-Defined Character Sets for Mainframe Environments

Character Set Name Character Set Code Number Description
EBCDIC 192
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Special characters
HANGULEBCDIC933_1II 108
  • Korean characters
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
KATAKANAEBCDIC 111
  • Uppercase English characters
  • katakana characters
  • Special characters
Not supported for the C preprocessor.
KANJIEBCDIC5026_0I 112
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • katakana characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
Not supported with the C preprocessor.
KANJIEBCDIC5035_0I 113
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • katakana characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
SCHEBCDIC935_21J 109
  • Simplified Chinese characters
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
TCHEBCDIC937_3IB 110
  • Traditional Chinese characters
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
UTF8 191
  • Compressed UNICODE (1-3 byte on Teradata)
UTF16 190
  • 2 byte UTF-16

Site-Defined Character Sets for Mainframe Environments

Character Set Name Character Set Code Number Language
SDKATAKANAEBCDIC_4IF 77 Japanese
SDKANJIEBCDIC5026_4IG 78 Japanese
SDKANJIEBCDIC5035_4IH 79 Japanese
SDSCHEBCDIC935_6IJ 75 Simplified Chinese
SDTCHEBDIC937_7IB 76 Traditional Chinese
SDHANGULEBCDIC933_5II 74 Korean

Teradata-Defined Character Sets for Workstation-Attached Environments

Character Set Name Character Set Code Number Description
ASCII 255
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Special characters
JISCII8

115 (Intel based platforms)

243 (non-Intel based platforms)

  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • katakana characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
HANGULKSC5601_2R4 120
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
KANJISJIS_0S 119 (Intel-based platforms)

247 (non-Intel-based platforms)

The SHIFT+JIS character set used by PC clients running DOS/V.

It includes:

  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • katakana characters multibyte characters

  • Special characters
KANJIEUC_0U 118 (Intel-based platforms)

246 (non-Intel-based platforms)

The Extended UNIX Code multibyte character set combined with the ASCII character set for single byte characters.

It includes:

  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • katakana characters

  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
SCHGB2312_1T0 108
  • Simplified Chinese characters
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
TCHBIG5_1R0 122
  • Traditional Chinese characters
  • Uppercase and lowercase English characters
  • Multibyte characters
  • Special characters
UTF8 63
  • Intel-based platforms
191
  • non-Intel-based platforms
UTF16 62
  • Intel-based platforms
190
  • non-Intel-based platforms

Site-Defined Character Sets for Workstation-Attached Environments

Character Set Name Character Set Code Number Description
SDKANJIEUC_1U3 91 Japanese
SDKANJISJIS_1S3 92 Japanese
SDTCHGB2312_2T0 94 Simplified Chinese
SDTCHBIG5_3R0 95 Traditional Chinese
SDHANGULKSC5601_4R4 93 Korean