Character Sets and Encodings
A reference of 22 character encoding standards used to represent text in computers. Each encoding maps numeric values to specific characters, with different encodings supporting different languages and scripts.
| Encoding | Languages | Table |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII | English | View |
| Code page 437 | English, German, Swedish | View |
| ISO-8859-1 | English, various others | View |
| ISO-8859-2 | Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German (missing uppercase ẞ), Hungarian, Polish, Rotokas, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, Turkmen | View |
| ISO-8859-3 | Maltese, Esperanto, Turkish, English, German | View |
| ISO-8859-4 | - | View |
| ISO-8859-5 | Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Serbian, Ukrainian (partial) | View |
| ISO-8859-6 | - | View |
| ISO-8859-7 | Greek, English | View |
| ISO-8859-8 | Hebrew, English | View |
| ISO-8859-9 | - | View |
| ISO-8859-10 | Nordic languages | View |
| ISO-8859-11 | - | View |
| Windows-1250 | Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Montenegrin, Romanian (before 1993 spelling reform), Rotokas, Albanian, English, German, Luxembourgish | View |
| Windows-1251 | Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Bosnian Cyrillic, Macedonian, Rotokas, Rusyn, English | View |
| Windows-1252 | English, Danish, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, German, Finnish, Icelandic, French, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Albanian, Estonian, Swahili, Tswana, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Rotokas, Romansh, Dutc, and Slovene | |
| Windows-1253 | Greek, English, mathematical usage | View |
| Windows-1254 | Turkish, English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Luxembourgish, Rotokas, Tswana, Azeri | View |
| Windows-1255 | Hebrew, English | View |
| Windows-1256 | Arabic, Persian, Urdu, English, French (except capital letters with diacritics) | View |
| Windows-1257 | Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian (also supports Polish, Slovene, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, German, English, Māori) | View |
| Windows-1258 | Vietnamese, English, French, German, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Irish, Albanian, Luxembourgish, Tswana. With combining diacritics: Estonian, Italian, Portuguese, Yoruba, Guarani, Igbo, Devanagari transliteration. | View |