Added in: 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.1
The following table lists the character sets added in Firebird.
Table 4.1. Character sets new in Firebird
| Name |
Max bytes/ch. |
Languages |
Added in |
| CP943C |
2 |
Japanese |
2.1 |
| DOS737 |
1 |
Greek |
1.5 |
| DOS775 |
1 |
Baltic |
1.5 |
| DOS858 |
1 |
= DOS850 plus € sign |
1.5 |
| DOS862 |
1 |
Hebrew |
1.5 |
| DOS864 |
1 |
Arabic |
1.5 |
| DOS866 |
1 |
Russian |
1.5 |
| DOS869 |
1 |
Modern Greek |
1.5 |
| GBK |
2 |
Chinese |
2.1 |
| ISO8859_2 |
1 |
Latin-2, Central European |
1.0 |
| ISO8859_3 |
1 |
Latin-3, Southern European |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_4 |
1 |
Latin-4, Northern European |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_5 |
1 |
Cyrillic |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_6 |
1 |
Arabic |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_7 |
1 |
Greek |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_8 |
1 |
Hebrew |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_9 |
1 |
Latin-5, Turkish |
1.5 |
| ISO8859_13 |
1 |
Latin-7, Baltic Rim |
1.5 |
| KOI8R |
1 |
Russian |
2.0 |
| KOI8U |
1 |
Ukrainian |
2.0 |
| TIS620 |
1 |
Thai |
2.1 |
| UTF8 |
4 |
All |
2.0 |
| WIN1255 |
1 |
Hebrew |
1.5 |
| WIN1256 |
1 |
Arabic |
1.5 |
| WIN1257 |
1 |
Baltic |
1.5 |
| WIN1258 |
1 |
Vietnamese |
2.0 |
