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Code Pages That Handle All Supported Unicode Characters

The following table lists ICU code pages that handle all characters supported by Unicode:

Name	Typical Use	Character Length in Bytes
BOCU-1	Email	3+
CESU-8	Compression	3+
IMAP-mailbox-name	Email	3+
SCSU	Compression	3+
UTF-16	-	2
UTF16_OppositeEndian	-	2
UTF16_PlatformEndian	-	2
UTF-16BE	Databases	2
UTF-16LE	Databases	2
UTF-32	-	4
UTF32_OppositeEndian	-	4
UTF32_PlatformEndian	-	4
UTF-32BE	-	4
UTF-32LE	-	4
UTF-7	Email	3+
UTF-8	Databases	3+

Code pages UTF-16 and UTF-32 include a Byte Order marker (BOM) sequence of characters preceding the data. These code pages might be useful in encoding an entire file, but are seldom used in databases where UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE are commonly used or where characters are defined in 16 bit integers.

Little-ended (LE) code pages are used on Linux and Windows systems, for example, UTF-16LE.

Big-ended (BE) code pages are used on Unix, i5/OS and z/OS, for example, UTF-16BE.

PowerExchange does not support supplemental characters defined above the basic plain, that is <U00FFFF>, and which are formed by 2 surrogate NUM16 integers. If PowerExchange encounters a supplemental character, PowerExchange treats it as invalid and replaces it with the substitution character.

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