derby.ui.codeset property derby.ui.codeset (tool property)Internationalization featurescodeset
Function

Set this property to a supported character encoding value when using one of the 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 the table later in this topic).

 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 the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 Software Development Kit, go to http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html.

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