Supported Encodings
This document references http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html for convenience purposes only. It is recommended you consult Sun's document (requires an Internet connection).
Basic Encoding Set
| Canonical Name for java.nio API | Canonical Name for java.io and java.lang API | Description |
|---|---|---|
| US-ASCII | ASCII | American Standard code for Information Interchange |
| windows-1252 | Cp1252 | Windows Latin-1 |
| ISO-8859-1 | ISO8859_1 | ISO 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1 |
| ISO-8859-15 | In extended encoding set | Latin alphabet No. 9 |
| UTF-8 | UTF8 | Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format |
| UTF-16 | UTF-16 | Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark |
| UTF-16BE | UnicodeBigUnmarked | Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order |
| UTF-16LE | UnicodeLittleUnmarked | Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order |
| Not available | UnicodeBig | Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order, with byte-order mark |
| Not available | UnicodeLittle | Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order, with byte-order mark |
Extended Encoding Set
| Canonical Name for java.nio API | Canonical Name for java.io and java.lang API | Description |
|---|---|---|
| windows-1250 | Cp1250 | Windows Eastern European |
| windows-1253 | Cp1253 | Windows Greek |
| windows-1254 | Cp1254 | Windows Turkish |
| windows-1255 | Cp1255 | Windows Hebrew |
| windows-1256 | Cp1256 | Windows Arabic |
| windows-1257 | Cp1257 | Windows Baltic |
| windows-1258 | Cp1258 | Windows Vietnamese |
| ISO-8859-2 | ISO8859_2 | Latin Alphabet No. 2 |
| ISO-8859-3 | ISO8859_3 | Latin Alphabet No. 3 |
| ISO-8859-4 | ISO8859_4 | Latin Alphabet No. 4 |
| ISO-8859-5 | ISO8859_5 | Latin/Cyrillic Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-6 | ISO8859_6 | Latin/Arabic Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-7 | ISO8859_7 | Latin/Greek Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-8 | ISO8859_8 | Latin/Hebrew Alphabet |
| ISO-8859-9 | ISO8859_9 | Latin Alphabet No. 5 |
| ISO-8859-13 | ISO8859_13 | Latin Alphabet No. 7 |
| windows-31j | MS932 | Windows Japanese |
| EUC-JP | EUC_JP | JISX 0201, 0208 and 0212, EUC encoding Japanese |
| EUC-JP-LINUX | EUC_JP_LINUX | JISX 0201, 0208 , EUC encoding Japanese |
| Shift_JIS | SJIS | Shift-JIS, Japanese |
| ISO-2022-JP | ISO2022JP | JIS X 0201, 0208, in ISO 2022 form, Japanese |
| windows-936 | MS936 | Windows Simplified Chinese |
| GB18030 | GB18030 | Simplified Chinese, PRC standard |
| EUC-CN | EUC_CN | GB2312, EUC encoding, Simplified Chinese |
| GBK | GBK | GBK, Simplified Chinese |
| ISCII91 | ISCII91 | ISCII91 encoding of Indic scripts |
| ISO-2022-CN-GB | ISO2022CN_GB | GB 2312 in ISO 2022 CN form, Simplified Chinese (conversion from Unicode only) |
| windows-949 | MS949 | Windows Korean |
| EUC-KR | EUC_KR | KS C 5601, EUC encoding, Korean |
| ISO-2022-KR | ISO2022KR | ISO 2022 KR, Korean |
| windows-950 | MS950 | Windows Traditional Chinese |
| EUC-TW | EUC_TW | CNS11643 (Plane 1-3), EUC encoding, Traditional Chinese |
| ISO-2022-CN-CNS | ISO2022CN_CNS | CNS 11643 in ISO2022 CN form, Traditional Chinese (conversion from Unicode only) |
| Big5 | Big5 | Big5, Traditional Chinese |
| Big5-HKSCS | Big5_HKSCS | Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese |
| TIS-620 | TIS620 | TIS620, Thai |
| KOI8-R | KOI8_R | KOI8-R, Russian |
Extended Encoding Set (supported by java.io and java.lang APIs)
| Canonical Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Big5_Solaris | Big5 with seven additional Hanzi ideograph character mappings for the Solaris zh_TW.BIG5 locale |
| Cp037 | USA, Canada (Bilingual, French), Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Australia |
| Cp273 | IBM Austria, Germany |
| Cp277 | IBM Denmark, Norway |
| Cp278 | IBM Finland, Sweden |
| Cp280 | IBM Italy |
| Cp284 | IBM Catalan/Spain, Spanish Latin America |
| Cp285 | IBM United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Cp297 | IBM France |
| Cp420 | IBM Arabic |
| Cp424 | IBM Hebrew |
| Cp437 | MS-DOS United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa |
| Cp500 | EBCDIC 500V1 |
| Cp737 | PC Greek |
| Cp775 | PC Baltic |
| Cp838 | IBM Thailand extended SBCS |
| Cp850 | MS-DOS Latin-1 |
| Cp852 | MS-DOS Latin-2 |
| Cp855 | IBM Cyrillic |
| Cp856 | IBM Hebrew |
| Cp857 | IBM Turkish |
| Cp858 | Variant of Cp850 with Euro character |
| Cp860 | MS-DOS Portuguese |
| Cp861 | MS-DOS Icelandic |
| Cp862 | PC Hebrew |
| Cp863 | MS-DOS Canadian French |
| Cp864 | PC Arabic |
| Cp865 | MS-DOS Nordic |
| Cp866 | MS-DOS Russian |
| Cp868 | MS-DOS Pakistan |
| Cp869 | IBM Modern Greek |
| Cp870 | IBM Multilingual Latin-2 |
| Cp871 | IBM Iceland |
| Cp874 | IBM Thai |
| Cp875 | IBM Greek |
| Cp918 | IBM Pakistan (Urdu) |
| Cp921 | IBM Latvia, Lithuania (AIX, DOS) |
| Cp922 | IBM Estonia (AIX, DOS) |
| Cp930 | Japanese Katakana-Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, superset of 5026 |
| Cp933 | Korean Mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5029 |
| Cp935 | Simplified Chinese Host mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5031 |
| Cp937 | Traditional Chinese Host miexed with 6204 UDC, superset of 5033 |
| Cp939 | Japanese Latin Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, superset of 5035 |
| Cp942 | IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 |
| Cp942C | Variant of Cp942 |
| Cp943 | IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 and Shift-JIS |
| Cp943C | Variant of Cp943 |
| Cp948 | OS/2 Chinese (Taiwan) superset of 938 |
| Cp949 | PC Korean |
| Cp949C | Variant of Cp949 |
| Cp950 | PC Chinese (Hong Kong, Taiwan) |
| Cp964 | AIX Chinese (Taiwan) |
| Cp970 | AIX Korean |
| Cp1006 | IBM AIX Pakistan (Urdu) |
| Cp1025 | IBM Multilingual Cyrillic: Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovinia, Macedonia (FYR) |
| Cp1026 | IBM Latin-5, Turkey |
| Cp1046 | IBM Arabic - Windows |
| Cp1097 | IBM Iran (Farsi)/Persian |
| Cp1098 | IBM Iran (Farsi)/Persian (PC) |
| Cp1112 | IBM Latvia, Lithuania |
| Cp1122 | IBM Estonia |
| Cp1123 | IBM Ukraine |
| Cp1124 | IBM AIX Ukraine |
| Cp1140 | Variant of Cp037 with Euro character |
| Cp1141 | Variant of Cp273 with Euro character |
| Cp1142 | Variant of Cp277 with Euro character |
| Cp1143 | Variant of Cp278 with Euro character |
| Cp1144 | Variant of Cp280 with Euro character |
| Cp1145 | Variant of Cp284 with Euro character |
| Cp1146 | Variant of Cp285 with Euro character |
| Cp1147 | Variant of Cp297 with Euro character |
| Cp1148 | Variant of Cp500 with Euro character |
| Cp1149 | Variant of Cp871 with Euro character |
| Cp1381 | IBM OS/2, DOS People's Republic of China (PRC) |
| Cp1383 | IBM AIX People's Republic of China (PRC) |
| Cp33722 | IBM-eucJP - Japanese (superset of 5050) |
| ISO8859_15 | ISO 8859-15, Latin alphabet No. 9 |
| JISAutoDetect | Detects and converts from Shift-JIS, EUC-JP, ISO 2022 JP (conversion to Unicode only) |
| MS874 | Windows Thai |
| MacArabic | Macintosh Arabic |
| MacCentralEurope | Macintosh Latin-2 |
| MacCroatian | Macintosh Croatian |
| MacCyrillic | Macintosh Cyrillic |
| MacDingbat | Macintosh Dingbat |
| MacGreek | Macintosh Greek |
| MacHebrew | Macintosh Hebrew |
| MacIceland | Macintosh Iceland |
| MacRoman | Macintosh Roman |
| MacRomania | Macintosh Romania |
| MacSymbol | Macintosh Symbol |
| MacThai | Macintosh Thai |
| MacTurkish | Macintosh Turkish |
| MacUkraine | Macintosh Ukraine |
