Simplified Chinese

Details of CCSIDs and CCSID conversion for Simplified Chinese.

Table 1. Native CCSIDs for Simplified Chinese on supported platforms
Platform Native CCSIDs
z/OS® 935, 1388
IBM® i 935, 1388
AIX 1383, 1386
HP-UX 1381 (see Note 1)
Windows 1381, 1386(see Note 2)
HP Integrity NonStop Server

Linux

Solaris

 1383
Note:
  1. Code sets prc15 and hp15CN on HP-UX are represented by CCSID 1381.
  2. Windows uses code page 936 but this is best represented by the CCSID of 1386. However, not all platforms of IBM MQ support this CCSID.

    On IBM MQ for Windows CCSID 1381 is used to represent code page 936, but a change to file ../conv/table/ccsid.tbl can be made which changes the CCSID used to 1386.

  3. IBM MQ supports the Chinese GB18030 standard. On z/OS, Linux, Windows, and Solaris, conversion support is provided between Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) and CCSID 1388 (EBCDIC with GB18030 extensions), Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) and CCSID 5488 (GB18030), and between CCSID 1388 and CCSID 5488. Note:

    On IBM i, support is provided by the operating system for conversion between Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) and CCSID 1388 (EBCDIC with GB18030 extensions).

    On HP-UX there is currently no support available on the HP11 operating system for GB18030. On HP11i, patch PHCO_26456 provides conversion support between GB18030 (CCSID 5488) and Unicode. Support is not provided for the conversion between GB18030 and 1388 (EBCDIC).

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

z/OS

Code page:

    935
    Does not convert to code page 1383

    1388
    Does not convert to code page 1383

HP-UX

Code page:

    1381
    Does not convert to code pages 1383, 1386, 1388