Default file.encoding values

This table shows how the file.encoding value is set based on the PASE for i coded character set identifier (CCSID) when the Java™ virtual machine starts.

Note: The PASE for i CCSID is set based on the job language ID and country ID. For more information about how PASE for i determines what CCSID to use, see IBM® PASE for i Locales.
PASE for i CCSID Default file.encoding Description
813 ISO8859_7 Latin-7 (Greek/Latin)
819 ISO8859_1 Latin-1
874 TIS620 Thai
912 ISO8859_2 Latin-2 (Czech/Czech Republic, Croatian/Croatia, Hungarian/Hungary, Polish/Poland)
915 ISO8859_5 Cyrillic 8-bit (Bulgaria)
916 ISO8859_8 Hebrew (Israel)
920 ISO8859_9 Latin-5 (Turkey extended)
921 Cp921 Baltic 8-bit (Lithuanian/Lithuania, Latvian/Latvia)
922 Cp922 Estonia ISO-8
923 ISO8859_15 Latin-9
1046 Cp1046 Windows Arabic
1089 ISO8859_6 Arabic
1208 UTF-8 Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
1252 Cp1252 Windows Latin-1