Common Character Sets
Character sets, also known as character encodings or code pages, are essential for text representation and manipulation on computers. There are various character sets available, each with its own set of characters and corresponding numerical values. Understanding the different character sets can help ensure text compatibility and proper display across different platforms and devices.
List of character sets
| Character Sets | Language |
|---|---|
| ASCII | English |
| Code page 437 | English, German, Swedish |
| ISO-8859-1 | English, various others |
| ISO-8859-2 | Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German (missing uppercase ẞ), Hungarian, Polish, Rotokas, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, Turkmen |
| ISO-8859-3 | Maltese, Esperanto, Turkish, English, German |
| ISO-8859-4 | |
| ISO-8859-5 | Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Serbian, Ukrainian (partial) |
| ISO-8859-6 | |
| ISO-8859-7 | Greek, English |
| ISO-8859-8 | Hebrew, English |
| ISO-8859-9 | |
| ISO-8859-10 | Nordic languages |
| ISO-8859-11 | |
| Windows-1250 | Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian (Latin script), Montenegrin, Romanian (before 1993 spelling reform), Rotokas, Albanian, English, German, Luxembourgish |
| Windows-1251 | Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Bosnian Cyrillic, Macedonian, Rotokas, Rusyn, English |
| Windows-1252 | English, Danish, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, German, Finnish, Icelandic, French, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Albanian, Estonian, Swahili, Tswana, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Rotokas, Romansh, Dutc, and Slovene |
| Windows-1253 | Greek, English, mathematical usage |
| Windows-1254 | Turkish, English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Luxembourgish, Rotokas, Tswana, Azeri |
| Windows-1255 | Hebrew, English |
| Windows-1256 | Arabic, Persian, Urdu, English, French (except capital letters with diacritics) |
| Windows-1257 | Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian (also supports Polish, Slovene, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, German, English, Māori) |
| Windows-1258 | Vietnamese, English, French, German, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Irish, Albanian, Luxembourgish, Tswana. With combining diacritics: Estonian, Italian, Portuguese, Yoruba, Guarani, Igbo, Devanagari transliteration. |