CCSID
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CCSID is an abbreviation used by IBM to mean "Coded Character Set Identifier". It is a 16-bit number that represents a specific encoding of a specific code page. For example, Unicode is a code page that has several encoding forms, like UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
Many European languages use the EBCDIC-encoded CCSID 37. CCSID 367 is identical to ASCII. CCSID 819 is identical to ISO 8859-1.
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