Specify code-set names

You can specify the names of the source and destination code sets with either locale names, code-set names, or the IFX_GL_PROC_CS macro.

• Locale names

  For example, you can use de_de.8859-1 for the German locale or ja_jp.ujis for the Japanese UJIS locale.

  For information about locale names, see the HCL Informix GLS User's Guide.

• Code-set names

  You can find the names of code sets in code-set name registry.

  The code-set name registry is in %INFORMIXDIR%\gls\cmZ for Windows and in $INFORMIXDIR/gls/cmZ for UNIX.

  In the preceding path names, INFORMIXDIR is the environment variable that specifies the directory where you install the HCL Informix® product, and Z represents the version number for the code-set object-file format.

• The IFX_GL_PROC_CS macro

  This macro specifies use of the code set of the current processing locale. Depending on the context, the value of IFX_GL_PROC_CS is based on either the client environment or the database that the database server is currently accessing.