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The Connect XE Drivers : The Sybase IQ Wire Protocol Driver : Connection Option Descriptions : Charset
 

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Charset

Attribute

Charset (CS)

Purpose

The name of a character set installed on the Sybase IQ server to be used by the driver.
This option is not a substitute for the IANAAppCodePage option. See IANAAppCodePage for details.

Valid Values

charset
where:
charset
is the name of a character set installed on the Sybase IQ server.

Behavior

If unspecified, the character set setting on the Sybase IQ server is used.
For the driver to return Unicode SQL types for connections to Sybase IQ 15.0 and higher, use a value of UTF-8. Refer to the Sybase IQ server documentation for a list of valid character sets.

Example

If your client needs to receive data in iso-8859-1 from a non-Unicode Sybase IQ server, you would specify a value of iso_1.

Default

None

GUI Tab

Connection tab