The IBM code-set of the database and OS Locale needs to be set correctly for the language used as listed in this table:

Tier

Language

DB2 for Linux, Windows, and UNIX Code-Set

1

English

1252

1

French

1252

1

German

1252

1

Italian

1252

1

Spanish

1252

1

Portuguese

1252

1

Japanese

IBM-943

2

Danish

1252

2

Dutch

1252

2

Finnish

1252

2

Norwegian

1252

2

Swedish

1252

2

Korean

1363

2

Traditional Chinese

big5

2

Simplified Chinese

GBK

3

Arabic

1256

3

Czech

1250

3

Hungarian

1250

3

Polish

1250

3

Greek

1253

3

Russian

1251

3

Turkish

1254