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Supported Encodings

Alexander Shtuchkin edited this page Jan 3, 2022 · 4 revisions
  • Node.js Native encodings: utf8, cesu8, ucs2 / utf16le, ascii, binary, base64, hex
  • Unicode: UTF7, UTF7-IMAP, UTF-16BE, UTF-16 (with BOM), UCS-4/UTF-32 (with BOM), UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE
  • Single-byte:
    • Windows codepages: 874, 1250-1258 (aliases: cpXXX, winXXX, windowsXXX)
    • ISO codepages: ISO-8859-1 - ISO-8859-16
    • IBM codepages: 437, 720, 737, 775, 808, 850, 852, 855-858, 860-866, 869, 922, 1046, 1124, 1125, 1129, 1133, 1161-1163 (aliases cpXXX, ibmXXX)
    • Mac codepages: maccroatian, maccyrillic, macgreek, maciceland, macroman, macromania, macthai, macturkish, macukraine, maccenteuro, macintosh
    • KOI8 codepages: koi8-r, koi8-u, koi8-ru, koi8-t
    • Miscellaneous: armscii8, rk1048, tcvn, georgianacademy, georgianps, pt154, viscii, iso646cn, iso646jp, hproman8, tis620
  • Multi-byte:
    • Japanese: Shift_JIS, Windows-31j, Windows932, EUC-JP
    • Chinese: GB2312, GBK, GB18030, Windows936, EUC-CN
    • Korean: KS_C_5601, Windows949, EUC-KR
    • Taiwan/Hong Kong: Big5, Big5-HKSCS, Windows950