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SACHARSET environment variable

Specifies the character set used by SQL Anywhere.

SACHARSET=charset

The charset is a character set name.

For information about recommended character sets, see Recommended character sets and collations.

If SACHARSET is not specified, the character set comes from the operating system.

• Setting environment variables on Windows
• Setting environment variables on Unix and Mac OS X