Character code set conversion support for the Java Object Request Broker service

The CORBA/IIOP specification defines a framework for negotiation and conversion of character code sets used by the Java Object Request Broker (ORB) service. This product supports the framework and provides the following system properties for modifying the default settings:

com.ibm.CORBA.ORBCharEncoding

Specifies the name of the native code set that the ORB uses for character data (referred to as NCS-C in the CORBA/IIOP specification). By default, the ORB uses UTF8. Valid code set values for this property are shown in the table that follows this list; values that are valid only for ORBWCharDefault are indicated.

com.ibm.CORBA.ORBWCharDefault

Specifies the default code set that the ORB uses for transmission of wide character data when no code set for wide character data is found in the tagged component in the Interoperable Object Reference (IOR) or in the GIOP service context. If no code set for wide character data is found and this property is not set, the ORB raises an exception, as specified in the CORBA specification. No default value is set for this property. The only valid code set values for this property are UCS2 or UTF16.

The CORBA code set negotiation and conversion framework specifies the use of code set registry IDs as defined in the Open Software Foundation (OSF) code set registry. The ORB translates the Java file.encoding names shown in the following table to the corresponding OSF registry IDs. These IDs are then used by the ORB in the IOR Code set tagged component and GIOP code set service context as specified in the CORBA and IIOP specification.

Java name	OSF registry ID	Comments
ASCII	0x00010020
ISO8859_1	0x00010001
ISO8859_2	0x00010002
ISO8859_3	0x00010003
ISO8859_4	0x00010004
ISO8859_5	0x00010005
ISO8859_6	0x00010006
ISO8859_7	0x00010007
ISO8859_8	0x00010008
ISO8859_9	0x00010009
ISO8859_15_FDIS	0x0001000F
Cp1250	0x100204E2
Cp1251	0x100204E3
Cp1252	0x100204E4
Cp1253	0x100204E5
Cp1254	0x100204E6
Cp1255	0x100204E7
Cp1256	0x100204E8
Cp1257	0x100204E9
Cp943C	0x100203AF
Cp943	0x100203AF
Cp949C	0x100203B5
Cp949	0x100203B5
Cp1363C	0x10020553
Cp1363	0x10020553
Cp950	0x100203B6
Cp1381	0x10020565
Cp1386	0x1002056A
EUC_JP	0x00030010
EUC_KR	0x0004000A
EUC_TW	0x00050010
Cp964	0x100203C4
Cp970	0x100203CA
Cp1383	0x10020567
Cp33722C	0x100283BA
Cp33722	0x100283BA
Cp930	0x100203A2
Cp1047	0x10020417
UCS2	0x00010100	Valid only for the ORBWCharDefault
UTF8	0x05010001
UTF16	0x00010109	Valid only for the ORBWCharDefault

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