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IBM i CCSID Information

CCSIDs are used to define a method of assigning and preserving the meaning and rendering of characters through various stages of processing and interchange. The IBM i has robust support of CCSIDs throughout its operating system. Detailed support information is available on the following topics:

• The list of supported CCSID values and their definitions.
• Values returned from the Get Related Default API.
• Supported encoding schemes and what they mean.
• Default CCSID values.
• Control codesdefined for different encodings.