Charset
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Attribute
Charset (CS)
Purpose
Specifies the name of a character set installed on the SAP ASE 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 SAP ASE server.
If unspecified, the character set setting on the SAP ASE server is used.
For the driver to return Unicode SQL types for connections to SAP ASE 12.5 and higher, use a value of UTF-8. Refer to the SAP ASE 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 SAP ASE server, you would specify a value of iso_1.
Default
No default value