Encoding API Encodings
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The constructors for the Encoding API interfaces {{domxref("TextDecoder")}} and {{domxref("TextDecoderStream")}} can be passed an optional label, representing the encoding to be used.
The default is UTF-8.
The following table lists all encoding names and labels that user agents must support, as defined in the Encoding Spec. These are generally applicable anywhere character encodings are used.
| Label | Encoding |
|---|---|
"unicode-1-1-utf-8", "utf-8",
"utf8"
|
'utf-8' |
"866", "cp866", "csibm866",
"ibm866"
|
ibm866 |
"csisolatin2", "iso-8859-2",
"iso-ir-101", "iso8859-2",
"iso88592", "iso_8859-2",
"iso_8859-2:1987", "l2", "latin2"
|
iso-8859-2 |
"csisolatin3", "iso-8859-3",
"iso-ir-109", "iso8859-3",
"iso88593", "iso_8859-3",
"iso_8859-3:1988", "l3", "latin3"
|
iso-8859-3 |
"csisolatin4", "iso-8859-4",
"iso-ir-110", "iso8859-4",
"iso88594", "iso_8859-4",
"iso_8859-4:1988", "l4", "latin4"
|
iso-8859-4 |
"csisolatincyrillic", "cyrillic",
"iso-8859-5", "iso-ir-144",
"iso88595", "iso_8859-5",
"iso_8859-5:1988"
|
iso-8859-5 |
"arabic", "asmo-708",
"csiso88596e", "csiso88596i",
"csisolatinarabic", "ecma-114",
"iso-8859-6", "iso-8859-6-e",
"iso-8859-6-i", "iso-ir-127",
"iso8859-6", "iso88596",
"iso_8859-6", "iso_8859-6:1987"
|
iso-8859-6 |
"csisolatingreek", "ecma-118",
"elot_928", "greek", "greek8",
"iso-8859-7", "iso-ir-126",
"iso8859-7", "iso88597",
"iso_8859-7", "iso_8859-7:1987",
"sun_eu_greek"
|
iso-8859-7 |
"csiso88598e", "csisolatinhebrew",
"hebrew", "iso-8859-8",
"iso-8859-8-e", "iso-ir-138",
"iso8859-8", "iso88598",
"iso_8859-8", "iso_8859-8:1988",
"visual"
|
iso-8859-8 |
"csiso88598i", "iso-8859-8-i",
"logical"
|
iso-8859-8i |
"csisolatin6", "iso-8859-10",
"iso-ir-157", "iso8859-10",
"iso885910", "l6", "latin6"
|
iso-8859-10 |
"iso-8859-13", "iso8859-13",
"iso885913"
|
iso-8859-13 |
"iso-8859-14", "iso8859-14",
"iso885914"
|
iso-8859-14 |
"csisolatin9", "iso-8859-15",
"iso8859-15", "iso885915", "l9",
"latin9"
|
iso-8859-15 |
"iso-8859-16" |
iso-8859-16 |
"cskoi8r", "koi", "koi8",
"koi8-r", "koi8_r"
|
koi8-r |
"koi8-u" |
koi8-u |
"csmacintosh", "mac",
"macintosh", "x-mac-roman"
|
macintosh |
"dos-874", "iso-8859-11",
"iso8859-11", "iso885911",
"tis-620", "windows-874"
|
windows-874 |
"cp1250", "windows-1250",
"x-cp1250"
|
windows-1250 |
"cp1251", "windows-1251",
"x-cp1251"
|
windows-1251 |
"ansi_x3.4-1968", "ascii",
"cp1252", "cp819", "csisolatin1",
"ibm819", "iso-8859-1",
"iso-ir-100", "iso8859-1",
"iso88591", "iso_8859-1",
"iso_8859-1:1987", "l1",
"latin1", "us-ascii",
"windows-1252", "x-cp1252"
|
windows-1252 |
"cp1253", "windows-1253",
"x-cp1253"
|
windows-1253 |
"cp1254", "csisolatin5",
"iso-8859-9", "iso-ir-148",
"iso8859-9", "iso88599",
"iso_8859-9", "iso_8859-9:1989",
"l5", "latin5", "windows-1254",
"x-cp1254"
|
windows-1254 |
"cp1255", "windows-1255",
"x-cp1255"
|
windows-1255 |
"cp1256", "windows-1256",
"x-cp1256"
|
windows-1256 |
"cp1257", "windows-1257",
"x-cp1257"
|
windows-1257 |
"cp1258", "windows-1258",
"x-cp1258"
|
windows-1258 |
"x-mac-cyrillic", "x-mac-ukrainian" |
x-mac-cyrillic |
"chinese", "csgb2312",
"csiso58gb231280", "gb2312",
"gb_2312", "gb_2312-80", "gbk",
"iso-ir-58", "x-gbk"
|
gbk |
"gb18030" |
gb18030 |
"hz-gb-2312" |
hz-gb-2312 |
"big5", "big5-hkscs", "cn-big5",
"csbig5", "x-x-big5"
|
big5 |
"cseucpkdfmtjapanese", "euc-jp",
"x-euc-jp"
|
euc-jp |
"csiso2022jp", "iso-2022-jp" |
iso-2022-jp |
"csshiftjis", "ms_kanji",
"shift-jis", "shift_jis", "sjis",
"windows-31j", "x-sjis"
|
shift-jis |
"cseuckr", "csksc56011987",
"euc-kr", "iso-ir-149", "korean",
"ks_c_5601-1987", "ks_c_5601-1989",
"ksc5601", "ksc_5601",
"windows-949"
|
euc-kr |
"csiso2022kr", "iso-2022-kr" |
iso-2022-kr |
"utf-16be" |
utf-16be |
"utf-16", "utf-16le" |
utf-16le |
"x-user-defined" |
'x-user-defined' |
"iso-2022-cn", "iso-2022-cn-ext" |
'replacement' |