Arabic

Details of CCSIDs and CCSID conversion for Arabic

Table 1. Native CCSIDs for Arabic on supported platforms
Platform Native CCSIDs
IBM® i

z/OS®

 420
AIX 1046, 1089
HP-UX 1089 (see note)
Windows 720, 864, 1256, 5352
HP Integrity NonStop Server

Linux

Solaris

 1089
Note: Only the ISO codeset is supported on HP-UX. The HP-UX proprietary arabic8 codeset has no registered CCSID and is not supported.

All platforms support conversion between their native CCSIDs and the native CCSIDs of other platforms, with the following exceptions.

IBM i

Code page:

    420
    Does not convert to code page 5352

HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, HP Integrity NonStop Server, Tru64

Code page:

    1089
    Does not convert to code page 720

Windows

Code page:

    720
    Does not convert to code pages 1089, 5352

    5352
    Does not convert to code page 720