About the IANAAppCodePage property
If the database character set is not Unicode and the Actuate BIRT iServer is running on a UNIX platform, you must set the IANAAppCodePage property. The value of IANAAppCodePage must match the database character encoding and the system locale. If you do not set IANAAppCodePage, the database driver searches for a value in the system information file (odbc.ini), first in the Data Source section and then in the ODBC section. If the database driver does not find a value in odbc.ini, it sets IANAAppCodePage to 4 (ISO 8859-1 Latin-1).
Table 2-2 lists values for IANAAppCodePage and the corresponding character encodings.

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