Use the following tables to determine the appropriate character set and locale name values to be associated with messages.
Supported Character Sets
| Character Set | Alias | Description |
|---|---|---|
Big5 | ibm-1373_P100-2002 ibm-1373 ibm-1373_VSUB_VPUA csBig5 x-big5 cp950 950 | Traditional Chinese |
Big5-HKSCS | big5-jkscs big5hk big5-hkscs:unicode3.0 big5hkscs Big5_HKSCS HK SCS-200 | Chinese |
GB18030 | ibm-1392 | Simplified Chinese PRC standard |
GBK | CP936 | Chinese |
EUC-JP | ibm-33722_P12A-2000 ibm-33722 ibm-33722_VPUA ibm-5050 ibm-eucJP eucjis Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese csEUCPkdFmtJapanese X-EUC-JP | EUC encoding Japanese |
EUC-KR | ibm-970_P110-2000 ibm-970 ibm-970_VPUA ibm-eucKR csEUCKR | EUC encoding, Korean |
Cp037 | cp37 037 IBM037 ibm-37_P100-1995 ibm-37 ibm-037 cpibm37 ebcdic-cp-us ebcdic-cp-ca ebcdic-cp-wt ebcdic-cp-nl csIBM037 | EBCDIC - US |
Cp273 | IBM273
ibm-273_P100-1995 ibm-273 csIBM273 ebcdic-de cpibm273 273 | EBCDIC - Germany, Austria |
Cp280 | IBM280 ibm-280_P100-1995 ibm-280 ebcdic-cp-it csIBM280 cpibm280 280 | EBCDIC - Italy |
Cp284 | IBM284 ibm-284_P100-1995 ibm-284 ebcdic-cp-es csIBM284 cpibm284 284 | EBCDIC - Catalan/Spain, Spanish Latin America |
Cp285 | IBM285
ibm-285_P100-1995 ibm-285 ebcdic-cp-gb csIBM285 ebcdic-gb cpibm285 285 | EBCDIC - United Kingdom, Ireland |
Cp297 | IBM297 ibm-297_P100-1995 ibm-297 ebcdic-cp-fr csIBM297 cpibm297 297 | EBCDID - France |
ISO-2022-JP | none | Japanese |
ISO-2022-KR | none | Korean email |
ISO-8859-1 | LATIN-1 ibm-819 IBM819 cp819 latin1 8859-1 csISOLatin1 iso-ir-100 ISO_8859-1:1987 I1 819 | Latin-1, Western Europe |
ISO-8859-2 | ibm-912 latin2 8859-2 csISOLatin2 iso-ir-101 ISO_8859-2:1987 l2 cp912 912 | Latin-2, Central Europe |
ISO-8859-3 | ibm-913 latin3 8859-3 csISOLatin3 iso-ir-101 ISO_8859-3:1988 l3 cp913 913 | Latin-3, Maltese Esperanto |
ISO-8859-4 | ibm-914 latin4 8859-4 csISOLatin4 iso-ir-110 ISO_8859-4:1988 l4 cp914 914 | Latin-4, Baltic |
ISO-8859-5 | ibm-915 cyrillic 8859-5 csISOLatinCyrillic iso-ir-144 ISO_8859-5:1988 cp915 915 | Latin-5, Cyrillic |
ISO-8859-6 | none | Arabic |
ISO-8859-7 | ibm-813 greek greek8 elott_928 ecma_118 8859_7 csISOLatinGreek iso-ir-126 ISO_8859-7:1987 cp813 813 | Greek |
ISO-8859-8 | CP1255 | Hebrew |
ISO-8859-9 | none | Turkish |
ISO-8859-11 | TIS-620 | Thai |
ISO-8859-13 | none | Baltic |
ISO-8859-15 | Latin9 | Latin |
JIS_X0201 | JIS X 0201 JIS-Roman JISCII | Japanese |
JIS_X0212-1990 | JIS X 0212 | Japanese |
KOI8-R | DIS-8859-5 RFC 1489 | Cyrillic |
Shift_JIS | ibm-943_P14A-2000 ibm-943 ibm-943_VSUB_VPUA sjis cp943 cp932 pck MS_Kanji csShiftJIS window-31j csWindows31J x-sjis 943 | Shift-JIS Japanese |
US-ASCII | ASCII ascii-7 ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ISO_646.irv:1991 iso_646.irv:1983 ISO646-US us csASCII 646 iso-ir-6 cp367 | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
UTF-8 | ibm-1208 ibm-1209 ibm-5304 ibm-5305 cp1208 cp65001 | Unicode UTF-8 |
UTF-16 | ISO-10646-UCS-2 csUnicode ucs-2 | Unicode UTF-16 |
UTF-16BE | none | Big-endian UTF-16 |
UTF-16LE | none | Little-endian UTF-16 |
windows-1250 | cp1250 cp5346 | Eastern Europe |
windows-1251 | ansi-1251 cp1251 cp5347 | Cyrillic |
windows-1252 | ibm-5348_p100_1997 ibm-5348 cp1252 | Windows Latin-1 |
windows-1253 | ibm-5349_P100-1998 ibm-5349 cp1253 | Windows Greek |
windows-1254 | cp5350 cp1254 | Latin, Greek |
windows-1255 | cp1255 | Hebrew |
windows-1256 | cp1256 WinArabic | Arabic |
windows-1257 | ibm-5353_P100-1998 ibm-5353 cp1257 | Windows Baltic |
windows-1258 | cp1258 | Vietnamese |
windows-31j | csWindows31J windows-932 MS932 | Japanese |
x-EUC-CN | EUC-CN <--- main entry? | Chinese Simplified (EUC) |
x-euc-jp-linux | euc_jp_linux euc-jp-linux | Japanese |
x-EUC-TW | cns11643 euc_tw EUC-TW EUC_TW euctw | Traditional Chinese |
x-ISCII91 | iscii ST_SEV_358-88 iso-ir-153 csISO153GOST1976874 ISCII91 | ISCII91 encoding of Indic scripts |
x-JIS0208 | none | Japanese |
x-Johab | none | Korean |
x-MS950-HKSCS | none | Windows Traditional Chinese with Hong Kong extensions |
x-mswin-936 | none | Windows Simpified Chinese PRC |
x-windows-949 | none | Windows Korean |
x-windows-950 | none | Windows Traditional Chinese |
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