Encoding API Encodings
The constructors for theEncoding API interfacesTextDecoder andTextDecoderStream can be passed an optionallabel argument, which identifies the encoding to be used.
The following table lists all encoding labels that user agents must support, along with the encoding that the label identifies. Note that most encodings have more than one label.
| 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" |