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Drivers for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Platforms : The Sybase Wire Protocol Driver : Connection Option Descriptions for Sybase Wire Protocol : Charset
 

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Charset

Attribute

Charset (CS)

Purpose

The name of a character set installed on the Sybase 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 server.
If unspecified, the character set setting on the Sybase server is used.
For the driver to return Unicode SQL types for connections to Sybase 12.5 and higher, use a value of UTF-8. Refer to the Sybase 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 server, you would specify a value of iso_1.

Default

None

GUI Tab

Connection tab