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Table 8. Languages and Code Pages (continued)

Country Code	Language
en	English
es	Spanish
®	Finnish
fr	French
gr	Greek
hu	Hungarian
il	Hebrew
it	Italian
jp	Japanese
kr	Korean
nl	Dutch
no	Norwegian
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
ru	Russian
se	Swedish
si	Slovenian
tr	Turkish
tw	Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

Conversion of Character Data

When character data is transferred between machines, it must be converted to a form that the receiving machine can use.

For example, when data is transferred between the DB2 Connect workstation and a host or AS/400 database server, it is usually converted from a workstation code page to a host CCSID, and vice versa. If the two machines use different code pages or CCSIDs, code points are mapped from one code page or CCSID to the other. This conversion is always performed at the receiver.

Character data sent to a database consists of SQL statements and input data. Character data sent from a database consists of output data. Output data that is interpreted as bit data (for example, data from a column declared with the

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