Table 314. Supported charsets

Table 314. Supported charsets
Charset
Aliases
Description
ISO-8859-1
ISO8859-1
Western European, Latin-1
ISO-8859-15
ISO8859-15
Western European, Latin-9. Adds the Euro sign, French and Finnish letters missing in Latin-1(ISO-8859-1).
UTF-8

ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode.
cp866
ibm866, 866
DOS-specific Cyrillic charset. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
cp1251
Windows-1251, win-1251, 1251
Windows-specific Cyrillic charset. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
cp1252
Windows-1252, 1252
Windows specific charset for Western European.
KOI8-R
koi8-ru, koi8r
Russian. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
BIG5
950
Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan.
GB2312
936
Simplified Chinese, national standard character set.
BIG5-HKSCS

Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese.
Shift_JIS
SJIS, 932
Japanese
EUC-JP
EUCJP
Japanese

Note:
Any other character sets are not recognized and ISO-8859-1 will be used instead.