CCSID, the Glossary
A CCSID (coded character set identifier) is a 16-bit number that represents a particular encoding of a specific code page.[1]
Table of Contents
14 relations: Bidirectional text, Character encoding, Code page, Double-byte character set, IBM, IBM Db2, ISO/IEC 2022, JIS X 0208, Shift JIS, Unicode, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, Variable-width encoding.
Bidirectional text
A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). CCSID and bidirectional text are character encoding.
See CCSID and Bidirectional text
Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.
See CCSID and Character encoding
Code page
In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. CCSID and code page are character encoding.
Double-byte character set
A double-byte character set (DBCS) is a character encoding in which either all characters (including control characters) are encoded in two bytes, or merely every graphic character not representable by an accompanying single-byte character set (SBCS) is encoded in two bytes (Han characters would generally comprise most of these two-byte characters). CCSID and double-byte character set are character encoding.
See CCSID and Double-byte character set
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
See CCSID and IBM
IBM Db2
Db2 is a family of data management products, including database servers, developed by IBM.
ISO/IEC 2022
ISO/IEC 2022 Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques, is an ISO/IEC standard in the field of character encoding.
JIS X 0208
JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language.
Shift JIS
Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. CCSID and Unicode are character encoding.
UTF-16
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). CCSID and UTF-16 are character encoding.
See CCSID and UTF-16
UTF-32
UTF-32 (32-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly 32 bits (four bytes) per code point (but a number of leading bits must be zero as there are far fewer than 232 Unicode code points, needing actually only 21 bits). CCSID and UTF-32 are character encoding.
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UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. CCSID and UTF-8 are character encoding.
See CCSID and UTF-8
Variable-width encoding
A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set (a repertoire of symbols) for representation, usually in a computer. CCSID and variable-width encoding are character encoding.
See CCSID and Variable-width encoding
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCSID
Also known as CDRA CCSID, Coded Character Set Identifier, IBM CCSID, IBM CDRA CCSID.