Windows Encoding Values

The encodings in the following tables are valid in the Windows operating environment.
Note: If an encoding-value contains a hyphen (-), enclose the encoding value in quotation marks.
Single-Byte Encodings for Windows
Description
Windows ENCODING= Value
MS-DOS ENCODING= Value
IBM-PC ENCODING= Value
Arabic
warabic
msdos720
pcoem864
Baltic
wbaltic
msdos775
pcoem921
Central Europe
wlatin2
not applicable
pcoem852
Cyrillic
wcyrillic
not applicable
pcoem866
pcoem855
Estonia
wbaltic
not applicable
pcoem922
European
not applicable
not applicable
pcoem858
Farsi
not applicable
not applicable
pc1098
French Canadian
wlatin1
not applicable
pcoem863
Greek
wgreek
msdos737
not applicable
Hebrew
whebrew
not applicable
pcoem862
Indian Script Code
not applicable
not applicable
pciscii806
Nordic
not applicable
not applicable
pcoem865
Portuguese
wlatin1
pcoem860
not applicable
Thai
not applicable
not applicable
pcoem874
Turkish
wturkish
not applicable
pcoem857
USA
wlatin1
not applicable
pcoem437
Vietnamese
wvietnamese
not applicable
not applicable
Western
wlatin1
not applicable
pcoem858
Windows Double-Byte Encodings
Description
PCMS ENCODING= Value
No Vendor ENCODING= Value
Traditional Chinese
ms-950
big5
Simplified Chinese
ms-936
not applicable
Japanese
ms-932
shift-jis
Korean
ms-949
not applicable
Note: Windows also supports the utf-8 Unicode encoding.
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