### Format of the ccsid Source File

The ccsid source file can contain comment lines and directives. Start comment lines with the number sign (#). Directive lines have the following format:

cs ccsid

where:

cs
  Is a string, e.g. "IBM-999".
ccsid
  Is the numeric value which identifies the coded character set.

Empty lines in a ccsid source file are ignored.

The cs and the ccsid values are not necessarily unique. There are multiple ccsid values that map to the same cs string, and there may be multiple cs values for the same ccsid. For example, IBM has assigned its own names for the ISO8859-x encodings, yet both have the same ccsid.

The tables that are created from the source file define a unique mapping. In the case where there are duplicate cs or ccsid values, the genccsid command uses the first definition in the source file.

GENCCSID Utility
GENCCSID Syntax
GENCCSID Return Codes
GENCCSID Messages