Ingres 9.2 Migration Guide - Actian

New Character Sets to Support Euro Currency SymbolNew Character Sets to Support Euro Currency Symbol Two new character sets that contain the Euro currency sign (€, UnicodeU+20AC) are added: IS885915 and WIN1252.To set the money format to the Euro currency symbol you must issue thefollowing command:ingsetenv II_MONEY_FORMAT L:€Alternatively, you can set this value in the Ingres Visual Manager (IVM).Windows:WIN1252 corresponds to Windows code page 1252 Latin 1. This is the commoncharacter set of most American and Western European Windows PCs, andincludes the Euro sign. Users wishing to use the Euro symbol in a Windows GUIenvironment need to select the WIN1252 character set at installation time. Toset this code page in a Windows command prompt environment, you mustissue the following Windows command:chcp 1252The default font in a Windows command prompt does not provide support forthe Euro currency symbol. For a workaround, set the font to Lucida Console.The Lucida Console font has moved the line drawing characters, used in Ingresforms, into an area not accessible to Ingres binaries, so we have providedrudimentary line drawing in the IBMPCD terminal entry. To set this terminaltype, you must either issue the following command:ingsetenv TERM_INGRES IBMPCDor set TERM_INGRES through IVM or specify this terminal type at install time.UNIX:IS885915 corresponds to the ISO 8859-15 Latin 9-character set that is almostidentical to the ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 set, except for eight characters; chiefamong them is the Euro currency sign (€, Unicode U+20AC).If you have an existing installation and would like to change the character set,be aware that this is not typically supported because the new character setcould display existing characters in your databases incorrectly. However, sincethe ISO 8859-15 only has eight characters that are different from ISO 8859-1,if you can verify that none of the eight characters are already present in yourdatabases, you could safely change the set (by changing II_CHARSETxx).204 Migration Guide