Code page location search order

KCM Core searches for code page translation tables in the following order:

Using a custom code page mapping file
Using the code page translation tables provided by Microsoft Windows
Using built-in code page tables

If KCM Core is unable to locate the appropriate code page translation tables, the conversion fails.

The following code pages are built in KCM Core.

Code page	Belongs to	Code page	Belongs to
273	Germany EBCDIC	912	Latin 2 ISO 8859-2
277	Denmark/Norway EBCDIC	915	Cyrilic ISO 8859-5
278	Finland/Sweden EBCDIC	921	Baltic ISO
280	Italian EBCDIC	922	Estonia
284	Spanish EBCDIC	930	Japan EBCDIC
285	UK EBCDIC	942	Japan SAA (1041+301)
290	Japanese EBCDIC	943	Japan JIS-90 (1041+941)
297	French EBCDIC	1004	Windows
420	Arabic Bilingual	1025	Cyrilic EBCDIC
424	Israel EBCDIC	1026	Turkey ISO 8859-9
437	US	1027	Japanese Latin EBCDIC
500	International EBCDIC	1112	Baltic EBCDIC
813	Greece ISO 8859-7	1122	Estonia EBCDIC
819	Latin 1 ISO 8859-1	1140	Portugal/US EBCDIC with Euro
850	Multilingual	1141	Germany EBCDIC with Euro
852	Latin 2	1142	Denmark/Norway EBCDIC with Euro
855	Cyrilic	1143	Finland/Sweden EBCDIC with Euro
857	Latin 5	1144	Italian EBCDIC with Euro
860	Portugal	1145	Spanish EBCDIC with Euro
861	Iceland	1146	UK EBCDIC with Euro
862	Israel	1147	French EBCDIC with Euro
863	Canada (French)	1148	International EBCDIC with Euro
864	Arabic	1149	Iceland with Euro
865	North European	1250	Latin 2 Windows
866/878	Russia/Russian Internet	1251	Cyrilic Windows
869	Greece	1252	Latin 1 Windows
870	Latin 2 EBCDIC	1254	Turkey Windows
871	Iceland	1257	Baltic Windows
874	Thailand	1275	Apple Latin 1
897	Japan

The parameter SubstituteChar provides a default character used if a character from the Src file could not be mapped to Dest. If the parameter SubstituteChar contains more than one character, only the first character is used.

If the parameter SubstituteChar is not present or if it contains an empty string, the value of the parameter SubstituteCode is used as the numeric representation of the replacement character.

The parameter SubstituteChar is ignored if built-in translation tables are used for the conversion. In this case a space is used as the substitution character.

If the parameter To maps to the code page "unicode" or "unicode-big-endian," you can also use the parameter SubstituteCode to specify Unicode characters as replacement. If the parameter To maps to a single-byte code page, only the lowest byte of the parameter SubstituteCode is used.

Examples are provided in the table.

Value	Description	Example
ddd	Any character code ddd in decimal format.	"8364" maps to the euro symbol € in the Unicode codepages.
0xhhh	Any character code hhh in hexadecimal format.	"0x20ac" maps to the euro symbol € in the Unicode codepages.

A SubstituteCode value of 0 is ignored.

If neither SubstituteChar nor SubstituteCode provide a valid replacement character, the command ConvertCodepage reports an error if the conversion encountered an character that could not be mapped.