Character Encoding Recommendation for Languages

IANA encoding	Java Canonical Name	Language	Comment
UTF-8	UTF8	8bit Universal character set
UTF-16	UTF-16	16bit Universal character set
US-ASCII	ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
windows-1250	Cp1250	Eastern European (Albanian, Croatian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian)	Windows encoding
windows-1251	Cp1251	Eastern European (Cyrillic-based: Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian	Windows encoding
windows-1252	Cp1252	Western European (Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish)	Windows encoding
windows-1253	Cp1253	Greek	Windows encoding
windows-1254	Cp1254	Turkish	Windows encoding
windows-1255	Cp1255	Hebrew	Windows encoding
windows-1256	Cp1256	Arabic	Windows encoding
windows-1257	Cp1257	Baltic	Windows encoding
windows-1258	Cp1258	Vietnamese	Windows encoding
ISO-8859-1	ISO8859_1	Western European (Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish)	Euro Symbol is not supported
ISO-8859-2	ISO8859_2	Eastern European (Albanian, Croatian, Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian)	Euro Symbol is not supported
ISO-8859-3	ISO8859_3	Southeastern European (Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Maltese, Spanish, Turkish)
ISO-8859-4	ISO8859_4	Northern European (Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greenlandic, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Sﾃ｡mi, Slovenian, Swedish)
ISO-8859-5	ISO8859_5	Eastern European (Cyrillic-based: Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian)
ISO-8859-6	ISO8859_6	Arabic
ISO-8859-7	ISO8859_7	Greek
ISO-8859-8	ISO8859_8	Hebrew
ISO-8859-9	ISO8859_9	Western European (Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
ISO-8859-13	ISO8859_13	Baltic Rim (English, Estonian, Finnish, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian)
ISO-8859-15	ISO8859_15	Western European (Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish)	ISO-8859-1 with Euro symbol support
windows-31j	MS932	Japanese	Windows encoding
EUC-JP	EUC_JP	Japanese	EUC encoding used on Unix platform
Shift_JIS	SJIS	Japanese	Shift JIS, does not support MS external characters
ISO-2022-JP	ISO2022JP	Japanese	JIS X 0201, 0208, in ISO 2022 form, this is used for e-mail
x-mswin-936	MS936	Simplified Chinese	Windows encoding, This is not registered in IANA.
GB18030	GB18030	Simplified Chinese	PRC standard
x-EUC-CN	EUC_CN	Simplified Chinese	GB2312, EUC encoding
GBK	GBK	Simplified Chinese
x-windows-949	MS949	Korean	Windows encoding, this is not registered in IANA.
EUC-KR	EUC_KR	Korean	KS C 5601, EUC encoding
x-windows-950	MS950	Traditional Chinese	Windows encoding, this is not registered in IANA
x-MS950-HKSCS	MS950_HKSCS	Traditional Chinese with Hong Kong extensions	Windows encoding, this is not registered in IANA
x-EUC-TW	EUC_TW	Traditional Chinese	CNS11643 (Plane 1-3), EUC encoding, this is not registered in IANA
Big5	Big5	Traditional Chinese
Big5-HKSCS	Big5_HKSCS	Traditional Chinese	Big5 with Hong Kong extensions
TIS-620	TIS620	Thai

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