Character encodings

List of encodings available by default in Firebird and the corresponding Java encodings.

Firebird encoding (encoding property)	Java encoding (charSet property)	Comments
ASCII	ASCII	-
BIG_5	Big5	Traditional Chinese
DOS437	Cp437	MS-DOS: United States, Australia, New Zeland, South Africa
DOS737	Cp737	MS-DOS: Greek
DOS775	Cp775	MS-DOS: Baltic
DOS850	Cp850	MS-DOS: Latin-1
DOS852	Cp852	MS-DOS: Latin-2
DOS857	Cp857	IBM: Turkish
DOS858	Cp858	IBM: Latin-1 + Euro
DOS860	Cp860	MS-DOS: Portuguese
DOS861	Cp861	MS-DOS: Icelandic
DOS862	Cp862	IBM: Hebrew
DOS863	Cp863	MS-DOS: Canadian French
DOS864	Cp864	IBM: Arabic
DOS865	Cp865	MS-DOS: Nordic
DOS866	Cp866	IBM: Cyrillic
DOS869	Cp869	IBM: Modern Greek
EUCJ_0208	EUC_JP	JIS X 0201, 0208, 0212, EUC encoding, Japanese
GB_2312	EUC_CN	GB2312, EUC encoding, Simplified Chinese
ISO8859_1	ISO-8859-1	ISO 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1
ISO8859_2	ISO-8859-2	ISO 8859-2
ISO8859_3	ISO-8859-3	ISO 8859-3
ISO8859_4	ISO-8859-4	ISO 8859-4
ISO8859_5	ISO-8859-5	ISO 8859-5
ISO8859_6	ISO-8859-6	ISO 8859-6
ISO8859_7	ISO-8859-7	ISO 8859-7
ISO8859_8	ISO-8859-8	ISO 8859-8
ISO8859_9	ISO-8859-9	ISO 8859-9
ISO8859_13	ISO-8859-13	ISO 8859-13
KSC_5601	MS949	Windows Korean
UNICODE_FSS	UTF-8	8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (deprecated since FB 2.0)
UTF8	UTF-8	8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (FB 2.0+)
WIN1250	Cp1250	Windows Eastern European
WIN1251	Cp1251	Windows Cyrillic
WIN1252	Cp1252	Windows Latin-1
WIN1253	Cp1253	Windows Greek
WIN1254	Cp1254	Windows Turkish
WIN1255	Cp1255	Windows Hebrew
WIN1256	Cp1256	Windows Arabic
WIN1257	Cp1257	Windows Baltic