The following table contains information about the character sets supported by IIS, and it includes the following information.
- Charset Friendly Name. Name used to refer to the character set.
- Preferred Charset Label. Most common identifier used to set character sets in Internet Explorer. For example, in the previous code sample the Charset Label is windows-1251. These identifiers are used for outbound data.
- Aliases. Other identifiers that can be used to set character sets. These identifiers are used for inbound data.
- IE Ver. Versions of Internet Explorer that support the listed character sets.
- Min OS. Minimum operating system that supports the listed character sets.
- Code Page. Code page that supports the listed character sets.
- Family Code Page. Indicates a Windows code page that is used to represent all or most of the characters in a charset.
CharsetFriendlyName | Preferred Charset Label | Aliases | IE Ver | Min OS | CodePage | FamilyCodePage |
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Arabic (ASMO 708) | ASMO-708 | IE5 | Win95 | 708 | 1256 | |
Arabic (DOS) | DOS-720 | IE5 | Win95 | 720 | 1256 | |
Arabic (ISO) | iso-8859-6 | arabic, csISOLatinArabic, ECMA-114, ISO_8859-6, ISO_8859-6:1987, iso-ir-127 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 28596 | 1256 |
Arabic (Mac) | x-mac-arabic | IE5 | Win2000 | 10004 | 1256 | |
Arabic (Windows) | windows-1256 | cp1256 | IE5 | Win95 | 1256 | 1256 |
Baltic (DOS) | ibm775 | CP500 | IE5 | Win2000 | 775 | 1257 |
Baltic (ISO) | iso-8859-4 | csISOLatin4, ISO_8859-4, ISO_8859-4:1988, iso-ir-110, l4, latin4 | IE5 | Win95 | 28594 | 1257 |
Baltic (Windows) | windows-1257 | IE5 | Win95 | 1257 | 1257 | |
Central European (DOS) | ibm852 | cp852 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 852 | 1250 |
Central European (ISO) | iso-8859-2 | csISOLatin2, iso_8859-2, iso_8859-2:1987, iso8859-2, iso-ir-101, l2, latin2 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 28592 | 1250 |
Central European (Mac) | x-mac-ce | IE5 | Win2000 | 10029 | 1250 | |
Central European (Windows) | windows-1250 | x-cp1250 | IE5 | Win95 | 1250 | 1250 |
Chinese Simplified (EUC) | EUC-CN | x-euc-cn | IE5 | Win2000 | 51936 | 936 |
Chinese Simplified (GB2312) | gb2312 | chinese, CN-GB, csGB2312, csGB231280, csISO58GB231280, GB_2312-80, GB231280, GB2312-80, GBK, iso-ir-58 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 936 | 936 |
Chinese Simplified (HZ) | hz-gb-2312 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 52936 | 936 | |
Chinese Simplified (Mac) | x-mac-chinesesimp | IE5 | Win2000 | 10008 | 936 | |
Chinese Traditional (Big5) | big5 | cn-big5, csbig5, x-x-big5 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 950 | 950 |
Chinese Traditional (CNS) | x-Chinese-CNS | IE5 | Win2000 | 20000 | 950 | |
Chinese Traditional (Eten) | x-Chinese-Eten | IE5 | Win2000 | 20002 | 950 | |
Chinese Traditional (Mac) | x-mac-chinesetrad | IE5 | Win2000 | 10002 | 950 | |
Cyrillic (DOS) | cp866 | ibm866 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 866 | 1251 |
Cyrillic (ISO) | iso-8859-5 | csISOLatin5, csISOLatinCyrillic, cyrillic, ISO_8859-5, ISO_8859-5:1988, iso-ir-144, l5 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 28595 | 1251 |
Cyrillic (KOI8-R) | koi8-r | csKOI8R, koi, koi8, koi8r | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 20866 | 1251 |
Cyrillic (KOI8-U) | koi8-u | koi8-ru | IE5 | Win95 | 21866 | 1251 |
Cyrillic (Mac) | x-mac-cyrillic | IE5 | Win2000 | 10007 | 1251 | |
Cyrillic (Windows) | windows-1251 | x-cp1251 | IE5 | Win95 | 1251 | 1251 |
Europa | x-Europa | IE5 | n.a. | 29001 | 1252 | |
German (IA5) | x-IA5-German | IE5 | Win2000 | 20106 | 1252 | |
Greek (DOS) | ibm737 | IE5 | Win2000 | 737 | 1253 | |
Greek (ISO) | iso-8859-7 | csISOLatinGreek, ECMA-118, ELOT_928, greek, greek8, ISO_8859-7, ISO_8859-7:1987, iso-ir-126 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 28597 | 1253 |
Greek (Mac) | x-mac-greek | IE5 | Win2000 | 10006 | 1253 | |
Greek (Windows) | windows-1253 | IE5 | Win95 | 1253 | 1253 | |
Greek, Modern (DOS) | ibm869 | IE5 | Win2000 | 869 | 1253 | |
Hebrew (DOS) | DOS-862 | IE5 | Win95 | 862 | 1255 | |
Hebrew (ISO-Logical) | iso-8859-8-i | logical | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 38598 | 1255 |
Hebrew (ISO-Visual) | iso-8859-8 | csISOLatinHebrew, hebrew, ISO_8859-8, ISO_8859-8:1988, ISO-8859-8, iso-ir-138, visual | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 28598 | 1255 |
Hebrew (Mac) | x-mac-hebrew | IE5 | Win2000 | 10005 | 1255 | |
Hebrew (Windows) | windows-1255 | ISO_8859-8-I, ISO-8859-8, visual | IE5 | Win95 | 1255 | 1255 |
IBM EBCDIC (Arabic) | x-EBCDIC-Arabic | IE5 | Win2000 | 20420 | 1256 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) | x-EBCDIC-CyrillicRussian | IE5 | Win2000 | 20880 | 1251 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Serbian-Bulgarian) | x-EBCDIC-CyrillicSerbianBulgarian | IE5 | Win2000 | 21025 | 1251 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway) | x-EBCDIC-DenmarkNorway | IE5 | Win2000 | 20277 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway-Euro) | x-ebcdic-denmarknorway-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1142 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden) | x-EBCDIC-FinlandSweden | IE5 | Win2000 | 20278 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro) | x-ebcdic-finlandsweden-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1143 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro) | x-ebcdic-finlandsweden-euro | X-EBCDIC-France | IE5 | Win2000 | 1143 | 1252 |
IBM EBCDIC (France-Euro) | x-ebcdic-france-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1147 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Germany) | x-EBCDIC-Germany | IE5 | Win2000 | 20273 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Germany-Euro) | x-ebcdic-germany-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1141 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Greek Modern) | x-EBCDIC-GreekModern | IE5 | Win2000 | 875 | 1253 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Greek) | x-EBCDIC-Greek | IE5 | Win2000 | 20423 | 1253 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Hebrew) | x-EBCDIC-Hebrew | IE5 | Win2000 | 20424 | 1255 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic) | x-EBCDIC-Icelandic | IE5 | Win2000 | 20871 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic-Euro) | x-ebcdic-icelandic-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1149 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (International-Euro) | x-ebcdic-international-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1148 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Italy) | x-EBCDIC-Italy | IE5 | Win2000 | 20280 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Italy-Euro) | x-ebcdic-italy-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1144 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Japanese and Japanese Katakana) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseAndKana | IE5 | Win2000 | 50930 | 932 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Japanese and Japanese-Latin) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseAndJapaneseLatin | IE5 | Win2000 | 50939 | 932 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Japanese and US-Canada) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseAndUSCanada | IE5 | Win2000 | 50931 | 932 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Japanese katakana) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseKatakana | IE5 | Win2000 | 20290 | 932 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Korean and Korean Extended) | x-EBCDIC-KoreanAndKoreanExtended | IE5 | Win2000 | 50933 | 949 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Korean Extended) | x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended | IE5 | Win2000 | 20833 | 949 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Multilingual Latin-2) | CP870 | IE5 | Win2000 | 870 | 1250 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Simplified Chinese) | x-EBCDIC-SimplifiedChinese | IE5 | Win2000 | 50935 | 936 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Spain) | X-EBCDIC-Spain | IE5 | Win2000 | 20284 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Spain-Euro) | x-ebcdic-spain-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1145 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Thai) | x-EBCDIC-Thai | IE5 | Win2000 | 20838 | 874 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Traditional Chinese) | x-EBCDIC-TraditionalChinese | IE5 | Win2000 | 50937 | 950 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Turkish Latin-5) | CP1026 | IE5 | Win2000 | 1026 | 1254 | |
IBM EBCDIC (Turkish) | x-EBCDIC-Turkish | IE5 | Win2000 | 20905 | 1254 | |
IBM EBCDIC (UK) | x-EBCDIC-UK | IE5 | Win2000 | 20285 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (UK-Euro) | x-ebcdic-uk-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1146 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada) | ebcdic-cp-us | IE5 | Win2000 | 37 | 1252 | |
IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada-Euro) | x-ebcdic-cp-us-euro | IE5 | Win2000 | 1140 | 1252 | |
Icelandic (DOS) | ibm861 | IE5 | Win2000 | 861 | 1252 | |
Icelandic (Mac) | x-mac-icelandic | IE5 | Win2000 | 10079 | 1252 | |
ISCII Assamese | x-iscii-as | IE5 | Win2000 | 57006 | 57006 | |
ISCII Bengali | x-iscii-be | IE5 | Win2000 | 57003 | 57003 | |
ISCII Devanagari | x-iscii-de | IE5 | Win2000 | 57002 | 57002 | |
ISCII Gujarathi | x-iscii-gu | IE5 | Win2000 | 57010 | 57010 | |
ISCII Kannada | x-iscii-ka | IE5 | Win2000 | 57008 | 57008 | |
ISCII Malayalam | x-iscii-ma | IE5 | Win2000 | 57009 | 57009 | |
ISCII Oriya | x-iscii-or | IE5 | Win2000 | 57007 | 57007 | |
ISCII Panjabi | x-iscii-pa | IE5 | Win2000 | 57011 | 57011 | |
ISCII Tamil | x-iscii-ta | IE5 | Win2000 | 57004 | 57004 | |
ISCII Telugu | x-iscii-te | IE5 | Win2000 | 57005 | 57005 | |
Japanese (EUC) | euc-jp | csEUCPkdFmtJapanese, Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese, x-euc, x-euc-jp | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 51932 | 932 |
Japanese (JIS) | iso-2022-jp | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 50220 | 932 | |
Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI) | iso-2022-jp | _iso-2022-jp$SIO | IE5 | Win95 | 50222 | 932 |
Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) | csISO2022JP | _iso-2022-jp | IE5 | Win95 | 50221 | 932 |
Japanese (Mac) | x-mac-japanese | IE5 | Win2000 | 10001 | 932 | |
Japanese (Shift-JIS) | shift_jis | csShiftJIS, csWindows31J, ms_Kanji, shift-jis, x-ms-cp932, x-sjis | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 932 | 932 |
Korean | ks_c_5601-1987 | csKSC56011987, euc-kr, iso-ir-149, korean, ks_c_5601, ks_c_5601_1987, ks_c_5601-1989, KSC_5601, KSC5601 | IE5 | Win95 | 949 | 949 |
Korean (EUC) | euc-kr | csEUCKR | IE5 | Win95 | 51949 | 949 |
Korean (ISO) | iso-2022-kr | csISO2022KR | IE5 | Win95 | 50225 | 949 |
Korean (Johab) | Johab | IE5 | Win2000 | 1361 | 1361 | |
Korean (Mac) | x-mac-korean | IE5 | Win2000 | 10003 | 949 | |
Latin 3 (ISO) | iso-8859-3 | csISOLatin3, ISO_8859-3, ISO_8859-3:1988, iso-ir-109, l3, latin3 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 28593 | 1254 |
Latin 9 (ISO) | iso-8859-15 | csISOLatin9, ISO_8859-15, l9, latin9 | IE5 | Win95 | 28605 | 1252 |
Norwegian (IA5) | x-IA5-Norwegian | IE5 | Win2000 | 20108 | 1252 | |
OEM United States | IBM437 | 437, cp437, csPC8, CodePage437 | IE5 | Win2000 | 437 | 1252 |
Swedish (IA5) | x-IA5-Swedish | IE5 | Win2000 | 20107 | 1252 | |
Thai (Windows) | windows-874 | DOS-874, iso-8859-11, TIS-620 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 874 | 874 |
Turkish (DOS) | ibm857 | IE5 | Win2000 | 857 | 1254 | |
Turkish (ISO) | iso-8859-9 | csISOLatin5, ISO_8859-9, ISO_8859-9:1989, iso-ir-148, l5, latin5 | IE5 | Win95 | 28599 | 1254 |
Turkish (Mac) | x-mac-turkish | IE5 | Win2000 | 10081 | 1254 | |
Turkish (Windows) | windows-1254 | ISO_8859-9, ISO_8859-9:1989, iso-8859-9, iso-ir-148, latin5 | IE5 | Win95 | 1254 | 1254 |
Unicode | unicode | utf-16 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 1200 | 1200 |
Unicode (Big-Endian) | unicodeFFFE | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 1201 | 1200 | |
Unicode (UTF-7) | utf-7 | csUnicode11UTF7, unicode-1-1-utf-7, x-unicode-2-0-utf-7 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 65000 | 1200 |
Unicode (UTF-8) | utf-8 | unicode-1-1-utf-8, unicode-2-0-utf-8, x-unicode-2-0-utf-8 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 65001 | 1200 |
US-ASCII | us-ascii | ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ascii, cp367, csASCII, IBM367, ISO_646.irv:1991, ISO646-US, iso-ir-6us | IE5 | Win95 | 20127 | 1252 |
Vietnamese (Windows) | windows-1258 | IE5, IE4 | Win95 | 1258 | 1258 | |
Western European (DOS) | ibm850 | IE5 | Win2000 | 850 | 1252 | |
Western European (IA5) | x-IA5 | IE5 | Win2000 | 20105 | 1252 | |
Western European (ISO) | iso-8859-1 | cp819, csISOLatin1, ibm819, iso_8859-1, iso_8859-1:1987, iso8859-1, iso-ir-100, l1, latin1 | IE5 | Win95 | 28591 | 1252 |
Western European (Mac) | macintosh | IE5 | Win2000 | 10000 | 1252 | |
Western European (Windows) | Windows-1252 | ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ascii, cp367, cp819, csASCII, IBM367, ibm819, ISO_646.irv:1991, iso_8859-1, iso_8859-1:1987, ISO646-US, iso8859-1, iso-8859-1, iso-ir-100, iso-ir-6, latin1, us, us-ascii, x-ansi | IE5 | Win95 | 1252 | 1252 |