Use the tables in this topic to determine the appropriate character set and locale name values to associate with a message definition.
| 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 | N/A | Japanese |
| ISO-2022-KR | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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 | N/A | Turkish |
| ISO-8859-11 | TIS-620 | Thai |
| ISO-8859-13 | N/A | 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 | N/A | Big-endian UTF-16 |
| UTF-16LE | N/A | 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 | 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 | N/A | Japanese |
| x-Johab | N/A | Korean |
| x-MS950-HKSCS | N/A | Windows Traditional Chinese with Hong Kong extensions |
| x-mswin-936 | N/A | Windows Simpified Chinese PRC |
| x-windows-949 | N/A | Windows Korean |
| x-windows-950 | N/A | Windows Traditional Chinese |
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