This table shows how the file.encoding value is set based on the iSeries™ coded character set identifier (CCSID) when the Java™ virtual machine starts.
| iSeries CCSID | Default file.encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 37 | ISO8859_1 | English for USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia; Portuguese for Portugal and Brazil; and Dutch for Netherlands |
| 256 | ISO8859_1 | International #1 |
| 273 | ISO8859_1 | German/Germany, German/Austria |
| 277 | ISO8859_1 | Danish/Denmark, Norwegian/Norway, Norwegian/Norway, NY |
| 278 | ISO8859_1 | Finnish/Finland |
| 280 | ISO8859_1 | Italian/Italy |
| 284 | ISO8859_1 | Catalan/Spain, Spanish/Spain |
| 285 | ISO8859_1 | English/Great Britain, English/Ireland |
| 290 | Cp943C | SBCS portion of Japanese EBCDIC mixed (CCSID 5026) |
| 297 | ISO8859_1 | French/France |
| 420 | Cp1046 | Arabic/Egypt |
| 423 | ISO8859_7 | Greece |
| 424 | ISO8859_8 | Hebrew/Israel |
| 500 | ISO8859_1 | German/Switzerland, French/Belgium, French/Canada, French/Switzerland |
| 833 | Cp970 | SBCS portion of Korean EBCDIC mixed (CCSID 933) |
| 836 | Cp1383 | SBCS portion of S-Chinese EBCDIC mixed (CCSID 935). |
| 838 | TIS620 | Thai |
| 870 | ISO8859_2 | Czech/Czech Republic, Croatian/Croatia, Hungarian/Hungary, Polish/Poland |
| 871 | ISO8859_1 | Icelandic/Iceland |
| 875 | ISO8859_7 | Greek/Greece |
| 880 | ISO8859_5 | Bulgaria (ISO 8859_5) |
| 905 | ISO8859_9 | Turkey extended |
| 918 | Cp868 | Urdu |
| 930 | Cp943C | Japanese EBCDIC mixed (similar to CCSID 5026) |
| 933 | Cp970 | Korean/Korea |
| 935 | Cp1383 | Simplified Chinese |
| 937 | Cp950 | Traditional Chinese |
| 939 | Cp943C | Japanese EBCDIC Mixed (similar to CCSID 5035) |
| 1025 | ISO8859_5 | Belorussian/Belarus, Bulgarian/Bulgaria, Macedonian/Macedonia, Russian/Russia |
| 1026 | ISO8859_9 | Turkish/Turkey |
| 1027 | Cp943C | SBCS portion of Japanese EBCDIC mixed (CCSID 5035) |
| 1097 | Cp1098 | Farsi |
| 1112 | Cp921 | Lithuanian/Lithuania, Latvian/Latvia, Baltic |
| 1388 | GBK | Simplified Chinese EBCDIC mixed (GBK is included) |
| 5026 | Cp943C | Japanese EBCDIC mixed CCSID (Extended Katakana) |
| 5035 | Cp943C | Japanese EBCDIC mixed CCSID (Extended Latin) |
| 8612 | Cp1046 | Arabic (base shapes only) (or ASCII 420 and 8859_6) |
| 9030 | Cp874 | Thai (host extended SBCS) |
| 13124 | GBK | SBCS portion of Simplified Chinese EBCDIC mixed (GBK is included) |
| 28709 | Cp948 | SBCS portion of Traditional Chinese EBCDIC mixed (CCSID 937) |