This topic lists the standard encoding formats.
| Encoding | Alias | Language |
|---|---|---|
| ascii | 646, US-ASCII | English |
| big5 | BIG5-tw, csBIG5 | Traditional Chinese |
| big5hkscs | BIG5-HKSCS, HKSCS | Traditional Chinese |
| cp037 | IBM037, IBM039 | English |
| cp273 | 273, IBM273, and csIBM273 | German |
| cp424 | EBCDIC-CP-HE, IBM424 | Hebrew |
| cp437 | 437, IBM437 | English |
| cp500 | EBCDIC-CP-BE, EBCDIC-CP-CH, and IBM500 | Western Europe |
| cp720 | None | Arabic |
| cp737 | None | Greek |
| cp775 | None | IBM775 |
| cp850 | 850, IBM850 | Western Europe |
| cp852 | 852, IBM852 | Central and Eastern Europe |
| cp855 | 855, IBM855 | Bulgarian, Belarusian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian |
| cp856 | None | Hebrew |
| cp857 | 857, IBM857 | Turkish |
| cp858 | 858, IBM858 | Western Europe |
| cp860 | 860, IBM860 | Portuguese |
| cp861 | 861, CP-IS, and IBM861 | Icelandic |
| cp862 | 862, IBM862 | Hebrew |
| cp863 | 863, IBM863 | Canadian |
| cp864 | IBM864 | Arabic |
| cp865 | 865, IBM865 | Danish, Norwegian |
| cp866 | 866, IBM866 | Russian |
| cp869 | 869, CP-GR, IBM869 | Greek |
| cp874 | None | Thai |
| cp875 | None | Greek |
| cp932 | 932, MS932, MSKanji, and MS-Kanji | Japanese |
| cp949 | 949, MS949, and UHC | Korean |
| cp950 | 950, MS950 | Traditional Chinese |
| cp1006 | None | Urdu |
| cp1026 | ibm1026 | Turkish |
| cp1125 | 1125, IBM1125, CP866U, and RUSCII | Ukrainian |
| cp1140 | IBM1140 | Western Europe |
| cp1250 | Windows-1250 | Central and Eastern Europe |
| cp1251 | Windows-1251 | Bulgarian, Belarusian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian |
| cp1252 | Windows-1252 | Western Europe |
| cp1253 | Windows-1253 | Greek |
| cp1254 | Windows-1254 | Turkish |
| cp1255 | Windows-1255 | Hebrew |
| cp1256 | Windows-1256 | Arabic |
| cp1257 | Windows-1257 | Baltic |
| cp1258 | Windows-1258 | Vietnamese |
| cp65001 | None | Windows only: Windows UTF-8 (CP_UTF8) |
| euc_jp | EUC-JP, UJIS, U-JIS | Japanese |
| euc_jis_2004 | JIS X 0213, EUC-JIS-2004 | Japanese |
| euc_jisx0213 | EUCJISX0213 | Japanese |
| euc_kr | EUC-KR, Korean, KSC5601, KS C 5601, KS C 5601-1987, KSX1001, and KS X 1001 | Korean |
| gb2312 | Chinese, csISO58GB231280, EUC-CN, EUCCN, EUGB2312-CN, GB2312-1980, GB2312-80, and ISO-IR-58 | Simplified Chinese |
| gbk | 936, CP936, MS936 | Unified Chinese |
| gb18030 | GB18030-2000 | Unified Chinese |
| hz | HZGB, HZ-GB, and HZ-GB-2312 | Simplified Chinese |
| iso2022_jp | csISO2022JP, ISO2022JP, and ISO-2022-JP | Japanese |
| iso2022_jp_1 | ISO2022JP-1, ISO-2022-JP-1 | Japanese |
| iso2022_jp_2 | ISO2022JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-2 | Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Western Europe, and Greek |
| iso2022_jp_2004 | ISO2022JP-2004, ISO-2022-JP-2004 | Japanese |
| iso2022_jp_3 | ISO2022JP-3, ISO-2022-JP-3 | Japanese |
| iso2022_jp_ext | ISO2022JP-EXT, ISO-2022-JP-EXT | Japanese |
| iso2022_kr | csISO2022KR, ISO2022KR, and ISO-2022-KR | Korean |
| latin_1 | ISO-8859-1, ISO8859-1, 8859, CP819, Latin, Latin1, and L1 | Western Europe |
| iso8859_2 | ISO-8859-2, Latin2, and L2 | Central and Eastern Europe |
| iso8859_3 | ISO-8859-3, Latin3, and L3 | Esperanto, Maltese |
| iso8859_4 | ISO-8859-4, Latin4, and L4 | Baltic |
| iso8859_5 | ISO-8859-5, Cyrillic | Bulgarian, Belarusian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian |
| iso8859_6 | ISO-8859-6, Arabic | Arabic |
| iso8859_7 | ISO-8859-7, Greek, Greek8 | Greek |
| iso8859_8 | ISO-8859-8, Hebrew | Hebrew |
| iso8859_9 | ISO-8859-9, Latin5, and L5 | Turkish |
| iso8859_10 | ISO-8859-10, Latin6, and L6 | Nordic |
| iso8859_11 | ISO-8859-11, Thai | Thai |
| iso8859_13 | ISO-8859-13, Latin7, and L7 | Baltic |
| iso8859_14 | ISO-8859-14, Latin8, and L8 | Celtic |
| iso8859_15 | ISO-8859-15, Latin9, and L9 | Western Europe |
| iso8859_16 | ISO-8859-16, Latin10, and L10 | Southeast Europe |
| johab | CP1361, MS1361 | Korean |
| koi8_r | None | Russian |
| koi8_t | None | Tajik |
| koi8_u | None | Ukrainian |
| kz1048 | KZ_1048, STRK1048_2002, and RK1048 | Kazakh |
| mac_cyrillic | maccyrillic | Bulgarian, Belarusian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian |
| mac_greek | macgreek | Greek |
| mac_iceland | maciceland | Icelandic |
| mac_latin2 | MacLatin2, MacCentralEurope | Central and Eastern Europe |
| mac_roman | MacRoman, MacIntosh | Western Europe |
| mac_turkish | Macturkish | Turkish |
| ptcp154 | csPTCP154, PT154, CP154, Cyrillic-Asian | Kazakh |
| shift_jis | csShiftJIS, ShiftJIS, SJIS, and S JIS | Japanese |
| shift_jis_2004 | ShiftJIS2004, SJIS 2004, and SJIS2004 | Japanese |
| shift_jisx0213 | ShiftJISX0213, SJISX0213, and S JISX0213 | Japanese |
| utf_32 | U32, UTF32 | All languages |
| utf_32_be | UTF-32BE | All languages |
| utf_32_le | UTF-32LE | All languages |
| utf_16 | U16, utf16 | All languages |
| utf_16_be | UTF-16BE | All languages |
| utf_16_le | UTF-16LE | All languages |
| utf_7 | U7, Unicode-1-1-UTF-7 | All languages |
| utf_8 | U8, UTF, and UTF8 | All languages |
| utf_8_sig | None | All languages |