Internationalization Character Set

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.

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 ).
See International language support for PC

Charset Encoding

Character sets supported by browsers