Unicode CCSIDs

z/OS Unicode Services supports several different CCSID values for the Unicode Standard, and they are listed here for easy reference. (It is suggested to use 1200 for general Unicode because it will default to the most current version supported.)

CCSID	Description	Suffix
01200	Unicode - most recent version supported, UTF-16 encoding.	(Suffix not applicable)
01202	Unicode - most recent version supported, UTF-16. Data is little endian order.	(Suffix not applicable)
01208	Unicode - most recent version supported, UTF-8 encoding.	(Suffix not applicable)
01210	Unicode - most recent version supported, UTF-EBCDIC encoding.	UH
01232	Unicode - most recent version supported, UTF-32 encoding.	(Suffix not applicable)
13488	Unicode - version 3.0.	PG
17584	Unicode - version 3.1.	PH
21680	Unicode - version 4.0.	TH
42160	Unicode - version 6.0.	UR

UTF-16 might be encoded in big endian or little endian format. The default of z/OS® support for Unicode is big endian format, an order in which the "big end" is stored first. CCSID 1202 is defined to be UTF-16 little endian, an order in which the "little end" is stored first.