derby.ui.codeset property

Function

Set this property to a supported character encoding value when using one of the Derby tools with a language not supported by your default system.

Syntax

derby.ui.codeset=derbyval

where derbyval is a supported character encoding value, for example, UTF8 (see Sample Character Encodings).

Example

The following command specifies to run ij using the Japanese territory (derby.ui.locale=ja_JP) using Japanese Latin Kanji mixed encoding (codeset=Cp939):

java -Dderby.ui.locale=ja_JP -Dderby.ui.codeset=Cp939 
    -Dij.protocol=jdbc:derby:
    org.apache.derby.tools.ij

The following table contains a sampling of character encodings. Supported encodings vary from product to product. For example, to see the full list of the character encodings that are supported by Java 2 Software Development Kit, Standard Edition, v. 1.4.2 go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html.

Table 1. Sample Character Encodings
Character Encoding	Explanation
8859_1	ISO Latin-1
8859_2	ISO Latin-2
8859_7	ISO Latin/Greek
Cp1257	Windows Baltic
Cp1258	Windows Vietnamese
Cp437	PC Original
EUCJIS	Japanese EUC
GB2312	GB2312-80 Simplified Chinese
JIS	JIS
KSC5601	KSC5601 Korean
MacCroatian	Macintosh Croatian
MacCyrillic	Macintosh Cyrillic
SJIS	PC and Windows Japanese
UTF8	Standard UTF-8