What character sets and collations does InterBase 5 support?

Problem: What character sets and collations does InterBase 5 support? Solution: InterBase 5 supports the Big5 character set and 24 other character sets. Here's a list: ASCII BIG5 CYRL DOS437 DOS850 DOS852 DOS857 DOS860 DOS861 DOS863 DOS865 EUCJ_0208 GB_2312 ISO8859_1 KSC_5601 NEXT NONE OCTETS (Binary) SJIS_0208 UNICODE_FSS WIN1250 WIN1251 WIN1252 WIN1253 WIN1254 select t1.rdb$character_set_name, t2.rdb$collation_name from rdb$character_sets t1, rdb$collations t2 where t1.rdb$character_set_id = t2.rdb$character_set_id order by 1,2 RDB$CHARACTER_SET_NAME RDB$COLLATION_NAME =============================== =============================== ASCII ASCII BIG_5 BIG_5 CYRL CYRL CYRL DB_RUS CYRL PDOX_CYRL DOS437 DB_DEU437 DOS437 DB_ESP437 DOS437 DB_FIN437 DOS437 DB_FRA437 DOS437 DB_ITA437 DOS437 DB_NLD437 DOS437 DB_SVE437 DOS437 DB_UK437 DOS437 DB_US437 DOS437 DOS437 DOS437 PDOX_ASCII DOS437 PDOX_INTL DOS437 PDOX_SWEDFIN DOS850 DB_DEU850 DOS850 DB_ESP850 DOS850 DB_FRA850 DOS850 DB_FRC850 DOS850 DB_ITA850 DOS850 DB_NLD850 DOS850 DB_PTB850 DOS850 DB_SVE850 DOS850 DB_UK850 DOS850 DB_US850 DOS850 DOS850 DOS852 DB_CSY DOS852 DB_PLK DOS852 DB_SLO DOS852 DOS852 DOS852 PDOX_CSY DOS852 PDOX_HUN DOS852 PDOX_PLK DOS852 PDOX_SLO DOS857 DB_TRK DOS857 DOS857 DOS860 DB_PTG860 DOS860 DOS860 DOS861 DOS861 DOS861 PDOX_ISL DOS863 DB_FRC863 DOS863 DOS863 DOS865 DB_DAN865 DOS865 DB_NOR865 DOS865 DOS865 DOS865 PDOX_NORDAN4 EUCJ_0208 EUCJ_0208 GB_2312 GB_2312 ISO8859_1 DA_DA ISO8859_1 DE_DE ISO8859_1 DU_NL ISO8859_1 EN_UK ISO8859_1 EN_US ISO8859_1 ES_ES ISO8859_1 FI_FI ISO8859_1 FR_CA ISO8859_1 FR_FR ISO8859_1 ISO8859_1 ISO8859_1 IS_IS ISO8859_1 IT_IT ISO8859_1 NO_NO ISO8859_1 PT_PT ISO8859_1 SV_SV KSC_5601 KSC_5601 KSC_5601 KSC_DICTIONARY NEXT NEXT NEXT NXT_DEU NEXT NXT_ESP NEXT NXT_FRA NEXT NXT_ITA NEXT NXT_US NONE NONE OCTETS OCTETS SJIS_0208 SJIS_0208 UNICODE_FSS UNICODE_FSS WIN1250 PXW_CSY WIN1250 PXW_HUNDC WIN1250 PXW_PLK WIN1250 PXW_SLOV WIN1250 WIN1250 WIN1251 PXW_CYRL WIN1251 WIN1251 WIN1252 PXW_INTL WIN1252 PXW_INTL850 WIN1252 PXW_NORDAN4 WIN1252 PXW_SPAN WIN1252 PXW_SWEDFIN WIN1252 WIN1252 WIN1253 PXW_GREEK WIN1253 WIN1253 WIN1254 PXW_TURK WIN1254 WIN1254