derby.ui.codeset property The derby.ui.codeset property specifies an alternative supported character encoding value when you use one of the tools with a language not supported by your default system. derby.ui.codeset property Internationalization featurescodeset

This property is commonly used in conjunction with the derby.ui.locale property.

Syntax derby.ui.codeset=derbyval

where derbyval is a supported character encoding value, such as UTF8 (see the table later in this topic).

 Example

The following command runs ij using the Japanese locale (derby.ui.locale=ja_JP) and Japanese Latin Kanji mixed encoding (derby.ui.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 character encodings that are supported by the Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 Software Development Kit, go to .

Sample character encodingsThis table lists and describes some of the available 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