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W3C Web Internationalization Resources

Charset Encoding

Documents publish in html or plain text and transmit with HTTP should set a charset parameter that specifies the character encoding of the document.

Example –
<meta http-equiv= "Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" >

Character sets supported by browsers


 Language Charset Standards Microsoft IE 5 Netscape 3 / 4

Arabic iso-8859-6 yes no
asmo-708 yes no
x-mac-arabic yes no
windows-1256 yes no

Baltic iso-8859-4 yes no
windows -1257 yes no

Central iso-8859-2 / latin2 yes yes
European x-mac-ce yes Mac version only
windows-1250 yes yes

Chinese euc-cn yes no
Simplified gb2312 yes yes
hz-gb-2312 yes yes
x-mac-chinesesimp yes no
cp-936 no no
euc-tw no yes

Chinese big5 yes yes
Traditional x-mac-chinesetrad yes no
cp-950 no no
cp-932 no no

Cyrillic iso-8859-5 yes yes
koi8-r yes yes
koi8 yes no
x-mac-cyrillic yes Mac version only
windows-1251 yes yes

Greek iso-8859-7 yes yes
x-mac-greek yes Mac version only
windows-1253 yes yes

Hebrew iso-8859-8*
not used for HTML 4.0 onward
yes no
iso-8859-8-i yes no
x-mac-hebrew yes no
windows-1255 yes no

Icelandic x-mac-icelandic yes no

Japanese euc-jp yes yes
iso-2022-jp yes yes
x-mac-japanese yes no
shift_jis yes yes

Korean ks_c_5601-1987/ksc5601 yes yes
euc-kr yes yes
iso-2022-kr yes yes
x-mac-korean yes no

Latin 9 iso-8859-15 / latin9 yes no

Maltese iso-8859-3 / latin3 yes no

Thai windows-874 / tis-620 yes no

Turkish iso-8859-9 / latin5 yes yes
x-mac-turkish yes Mac version only
windows-1254 yes no

Unicode utf-7 yes yes
utf-8 yes yes
iso-10646-ucs-2 yes Version 4 onward
us-ascii yes yes

Vietnamese windows-1258 yes no

Western iso-8859-1 / latin1 yes yes
European x-mac-roman no Mac version only
macintosh yes no
windows-1252 yes no

Information on this table is unofficial and may be incorrect due to time, change and update factors. It is advisable to verify with the manufacturer's or the browser's specification.


Complete list of registered character sets that may be used in the Internet and may be referred to in Internet documentation.

Microsoft
Character Set Recognition
HTML Document Representation (W3C)
The Document Character Set & Character encodings

Most latest version of Web Browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera … support Character Set & Character encodings depending on the language supported by the OS ( Operation System ).
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