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Character encoding for package metadata and scripts

In SA, you can specify the character encoding for package metadata and scripts in the following ways:

  • Specify the encoding for package metadata when uploading packages in the SA Client or by using the SA Command Line Interface 1.0 (OCLI 1.0). For information on OCLI 1.0, see the SA 10.60 Use section.
  • Specify the encoding for scripts uploading them in the SA Client (in the Run Distributed Script Wizard and Scripts channel).

    SA converts the script contents from the UTF-8 encoding to the encoding that you select. Internally, SA stores the script in the UTF-8 encoding.

    After a script runs, you can download a ZIP file that contains the results encoded in UTF-8 format. For example, on Unix you can use the iconv program to interpret the downloaded results of the script execution.

The SA Client includes the following selections for character encodings:

  • Arabic (ISO-8859-6)
  • Baltic (Cp1257)
  • Baltic (ISO-8859-13)
  • Baltic (ISO-8859-4)
  • Central European (Cp1250)
  • Central European (ISO-8859-2)
  • Chinese Hong Kong, Taiwan (Cp950)
  • Chinese Simplified (EUC-CN)
  • Chinese Simplified (GB18030)
  • Chinese Simplified (GBK)
  • Chinese Traditional (Big5)
  • Chinese Traditional (Big5-HKSCS)
  • Chinese Traditional (EUC-TW)
  • Cyrillic (Cp1251)
  • Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)
  • Cyrillic (KOI8-R)
  • English (US-ASCII)
  • Greek (Cp1253)
  • Greek (ISO-8859-7)
  • Hebrew (Cp1255)
  • Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8)
  • Japanese (EUC-JP)
  • Japanese (ISO-2022-JP)
  • Japanese (Shift_JIS)
  • Korean (Cp949)
  • Korean (EUC-KR)
  • Korean (JOHAB)
  • South European (ISO-8859-3)
  • Thai (TIS-620)
  • Turkish (Cp1254)
  • Turkish (ISO-8859-9)
  • Unicode (UTF-8)
  • Vietnamese (Cp1258)
  • Western (Cp1252)
  • Western (ISO-8859-1)
  • Western (ISO-8859-15)