Extended Site-defined Character Sets | Teradata Vantage - About Extended Character Sets - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

International Character Set Support

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-23
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Product Category
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An extended site-defined character set defines the mapping of hexadecimal values to characters for single- and multibyte components of a character set. If you use a non-Western European language such as Russian, Arabic, or Urdu, you can define and install your own single-byte character set. If you use a non-Western European language such as Japanese, Korean, or Chinese, and the Teradata-supplied character sets are not entirely sufficient for your site, you can define and install your own multibyte character set.

Extended site-defined character sets can support, with certain constraints, any subset of the Unicode repertoire.

A user who is sufficiently privileged can define the relevant client character set, mapping bytes from the client to their corresponding Unicode values.