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Supported Encodings

This section lists the legacy encodings supported by Rosette. The encodings are listed by language and include alternative names that Rosette recognizes as equal in code points to the encoding.

Supported platforms for Rosette Core Library for Unicode include Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and MacOS.

This section contains:

Arabic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10004	Macintosh Arabic	Microsoft & IBM	CP10004
CP1256		Microsoft & IBM	CP1256
CP20420	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20420
CP28596	Arabic Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28596
CP708	ASMO708	Microsoft & IBM	CP708
CP720	Transparent ASMO	Microsoft & IBM	CP720
CP864		Microsoft & IBM	CP864
ISO 8859-6	ISOLatinArabic	International or National Standard	ISO_8859-6, Arabic, iso-ir-127, ECMA-114, ASMO-708

Baltic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP28594	Baltic Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28594
CP775		Microsoft & IBM	CP775
ISO 8859-4	Latin4	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-4, Latin4, iso-ir-110
ISO 8859-13	Latin7	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-13, Latin7

Celtic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
ISO 8859-14	Latin8	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-14, Latin8, iso-ir-199

Chinese Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
ChineseAutoDetect	For encodings, see ChineseAutodetect	Rosette Autodetect	ChineseAutoDetect
HKSCS		International or National Standard	HKSCS
ISO 2022-CN		International or National Standard	ISO-2022-CN
GB 18030		International or National Standard	GB18030
Chinese, Simplified
CCSID 935		IBM	CCSID-935, CCSID935
EUC-CN	GB2312, EUC-SC	Unix	GB2312
GB2312	EUC-CN, EUC-SC	International or National Standard	GB2312
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	International or National Standard	HZ, HZ-GB-2312
CP936	GBK	Microsoft & IBM	CP936, GBK
MacChineseSimplified		Macintosh	MacChineseSimplified
Chinese, Traditional
CCSID 937		IBM	CCSID-937, CCSID937
CNS-11643-1986	EUC-TW	International or National Standard	CNS-11643-1986
CNS-11643-1992	EUC-TW	International or National Standard	CNS-11643, CNS-11643-1992
EUC-TW	CNS-11643-1986, CNS-11643-1992	Unix	CNS-11643, CNS-11643-1992
GB12345		International or National Standard	GB12345
Big5		International or National Standard	Big5
Big5+		International or National Standard	Big5+, Big5Plus
CP10002	Macintosh Traditional Chinese	Microsoft & IBM	CP10002
CP950		Microsoft & IBM	CP950
MacChineseTraditional		Macintosh	MacChineseTraditional

Croatian Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
MacCroatian		Macintosh	MacCroatian

Cyrillic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10007	Macintosh Cyrillic	Microsoft & IBM	CP10007
CP1251	MS Windows Cyrillic (Slavic)	Microsoft & IBM	CP1251
CP20866	Cyrillic Alphabet, KOI8-R	Microsoft & IBM	CP20866
CP20880	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20880
CP21025	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP21025
CP21866	Ukrainian KOI8-RU	Microsoft & IBM	CP21866
CP28595	Cyrillic Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28595
CP855	IBM Cyrillic	Microsoft & IBM	CP855
CP866	MS DOS Russian	Microsoft & IBM	CP866
ISO 8859-5	ISOLatinCyrillic	International or National Standard	ISOLatinCyrillic
MacCyrillic		Macintosh	MacCyrillic

Devanagari Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
MacDevanagari		Macintosh	MacDevanagari
ISCII-Devanagari		Indian Standards	x-iscii-de, windows-57002

Greek Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10006	Macintosh Greek 1	Microsoft & IBM	CP10006
CP1253		Microsoft & IBM	CP1253
CP20423	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20423
CP28597	Greek Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28597
CP737		Microsoft & IBM	CP737
CP869	IBM Modern Greek	Microsoft & IBM	CP869
ISO 8859-7	ISOLatinGreek	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-7, Greek
MacGreek		Macintosh	MacGreek

Gujarati Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
MacGujarati		Macintosh	MacGujarati
ISCII-Gujarati		Indian Standards	x-iscii-gu, windows-57010

Gurmukhi Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10010	Macintosh Gurmukhi	Microsoft & IBM	CP10010
MacGurmukhi		Macintosh	MacGurmukhi

Hebrew Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10005	Macintosh Hebrew	Microsoft & IBM	CP10005
CP1255		Microsoft & IBM	CP1255
CP28598	Hebrew Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28598
CP38598	ASCII + Hebrew and private use characters	Microsoft & IBM	CP38598
CP862		Microsoft & IBM	CP862
ISO 8859-8	ISOLatinHebrew	International or National Standard	Hebrew

Icelandic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10079	Macintosh Icelandic	Microsoft & IBM	CP10079
CP861	MS DOS Icelandic	Microsoft & IBM	CP861
MacIcelandic		Macintosh	MacIcelandic

Japanese Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CCSID 1027	EBCDIK	Microsoft & IBM	CCSID-1027, CCSID1027
CCSID 290	EBCDIK	Microsoft & IBM	CCSID-290, CCSID290
CCSID 930		IBM	CCSID-930, CCSID930
CCSID 939		IBM	CCSID-939, CCSID939
CCSID 942		Microsoft & IBM	CCSID-942, CCSID942
CP10001	Macintosh Japanese	Microsoft & IBM	CP10001
CP20290	(full/half width Latin & halfwidth katakana)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20290
CP21027	(halfwidth Latin, halfwidth katakana & private use)	Microsoft & IBM	CP21027
EUC-JP		Unix	EUC-JP, EUC-J
EUC-JP-JISROMAN		Unix	EUC-JP-JISROMAN
ISO 2022-JP		International or National Standard	ISO-2022-JP
JapaneseAutoDetect	For encodings, see JapaneseAutodetect	Rosette Autodetect	JapaneseAutoDetect
JIS_X_0201	HalfWidthKatakana	International or National Standard	JIS_X_0201, IBM897
JIS_X_0208		International or National Standard	JIS_X_0208
MacJapanese		Macintosh	MacJapanese
Shift-JISMS	MS_Kanji, CP932	Microsoft & IBM	Shift-JIS, SJIS
Shift_JIS-2004	ShiftJISX0213	Microsoft & IBM	Shift_JISX0213, Shift-X
Shift-JIS78	Shift-JIS without MS/IBM extensions	Unix/Macintosh	Shift-JIS78, SJIS78

Korean Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10003	Macintosh Korean	Microsoft & IBM	CP10003
CP1361	Korean Johab (based on KSC 5861-1992)	Microsoft & IBM	CP1361
CP949		Microsoft & IBM	CP949
EUC-KR	KS_C_5861-1992	Unix	EUC-KR, EUC-K
ISO 2022-KR	KS_C_5601-1987	International or National Standard	ISO-2022-KR
Johab		International or National Standard	Johab
KoreanAutoDetect	See KoreanAutodetect	Rosette Autodetect	KoreanAutoDetect
KoreanAutoDetect	See KoreanAutodetect	Rosette Autodetect	KoreanAutoDetect
KS_C_5601-1987	ISO-2022-KR	International or National Standard	ISO-2022-KR
KS_C_5861-1992	EUC-KR	International or National Standard	KS_C_5861-1992
MacKorean		Macintosh	MacKorean

Latin Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10000	Macintosh Roman	Microsoft & IBM	CP10000
CP10029	Macintosh Latin2	Microsoft & IBM	CP10029
CP10082	(with mathematical symbols)	Microsoft & IBM	CP10082
CCSID 1047	EBCDIC (for IBM Open Systems platform)	Microsoft & IBM	CCSID1047
CP20261	(with private use characters)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20261
CP20269		Microsoft & IBM	CP20269
CP20273	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20273
CP20277	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20277
CP20278	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20278
CP20280	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20280
CP20284	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20284
CP20285	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20285
CP20297	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20297
CP20833	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20833
CP20871	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20871
CP28591	ASCII + Latin accented vowels	Microsoft & IBM	CP28591
CP28593	Latin 3 Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28593
CP850	MS DOS Multilingual, MS-DOS Latin1	Microsoft & IBM	CP850
CP870	(with fullwidth punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP870
ISO 8859-1	Latin1	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-1, Latin1, IBM819, iso-ir-100
ISO 8859-15	Latin1 + Euro symbol & accented characters	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-15, Latin9
ISO 8859-2	ISO_8859-2, Latin2, iso-ir-101	International or National Standard	Latin2, ISO-8859-2
MacRoman		Macintosh	MacRoman
NextStep		Apple/Next	NextStep
Adobe-Standard-Encoding	(used in PS printers)	Other Corporate	Adobe-Standard-Encoding
Adobe-Standard-Encoding	(used in PS printers)	Other Corporate	Adobe-Standard-Encoding
Latin, Canadian French
CP863	MS DOS Canadian French	Microsoft & IBM	CP863
Latin, Central European
CP28592	Central European Alphabet (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28592
MacCentralEuropean		Macintosh	MacCentralEuropean
Latin, Eastern European
CP1250		Microsoft & IBM	CP1250
Latin, Esperanto
CP20905	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20905
Latin, Portugese
CP860	MS DOS Portugese	Microsoft & IBM	CP860
Latin, Southeast European
ISO 8859-3	Latin3	International or National Standard	Latin3, ISO-8859-3
Latin, US English
ASCII	US-ASCII, CP367	International or National Standard	ASCII
CP037	EBCDIC	Microsoft & IBM	CP037
CP1026	EBCDIC	Microsoft & IBM	CP1026
CP1252	MS Windows Latin1 (ANSI)	Microsoft & IBM	CP1252
CP20105	US ASCII	Microsoft & IBM	CP20105
CP437	MS-DOS Latin US	Microsoft & IBM	CP437
CP500	EBCDIC	Microsoft & IBM	CP500
CP875	EBCDIC	Microsoft & IBM	CP875

Malayalam Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10017	Macintosh Malayalam	Microsoft & IBM	CP10017
ISCII-Malayalam		Indian Standards	x-iscii-ma, windows-57009

Nordic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP865	MS DOS Nordic	Microsoft & IBM	CP865
ISO 8859-10	Latin6	International or National Standard	Latin6, ISO-8859-10, iso-ir-157

Romanian Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
MacRomanian		Macintosh	MacRomanian

Slavic Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP852	MS DOS Slavic	Microsoft & IBM	CP852

Symbol Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
Adobe-Symbol-Encoding	(used in PS printers)	Adobe	Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
Adobe-Zapf-Dingbats-Encoding	(used in PS printers)	Adobe	Adobe-Zapf-Dingbats-Encoding
CP10008	Macintosh RSymbol (Right-left symbol)	Microsoft & IBM	CP10008
MacDingbats		Macintosh	MacDingbats
MacSymbol		Macintosh	MacSymbol

Thai Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP20838	(with fullwidth Latin & punctuation)	Microsoft & IBM	CP20838
CP874	IBMThai	Microsoft & IBM	CP874
ISO 8859-11 (draft)	ISOLatinThai	International or National Standard	Thai
MacThai		Macintosh	MacThai

Turkish Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP10081	Macintosh Turkish	Microsoft & IBM	CP10081
CP1254		Microsoft & IBM	CP1254
CP28599	Turkish (ISO)	Microsoft & IBM	CP28599
CP857	IBM Turkish	Microsoft & IBM	CP857
ISO 8859-9	Latin5	International or National Standard	ISO-8859-9, Latin5, iso-ir-148
MacTurkish		Macintosh	MacTurkish

Ukrainian Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
MacUkrainian		Macintosh	MacUkrainian

Vietnamese Language Encoding

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
CP1258		Microsoft & IBM	CP1258

Unicode Encodings Supported

Encoding	Other Names	Vendor/Standard Body	Other Rosette Names
BMP		Unicode	BMP, Unicode20:big-endian
Java	(way of representing Unicode chars in ASCII)	Sun	Java, Unicode20:BOM:Java, Unicode11:Java, Unicode11:BOM:Java
UCS2	ISO-10646-UCS2, UTF16	Unicode	Unicode
Unicode Big-endian		Unicode	big-endian, Unicode20:big-endian, Unicode11:big-endian, Unicode11:BOM:big-endian
Unicode Little-endian		Unicode	little-endian, Unicode20:little-endian, Unicode11:little-endian, Unicode11:BOM:little-endian
Unicode11-UCS2		Unicode	Unicode11-UCS2, Unicode11:UCS2, Unicode11:BOM:UCS2
Unicode11-UTF7		Unicode	Unicode11-UTF7, Unicode11:UTF7, Unicode11:BOM:UTF7
Unicode11-UTF8		Unicode	Unicode11-UTF8, Unicode11:UTF8, Unicode11:BOM:UTF8
UTF7		Unicode	UTF7, Unicode20:BOM:UTF7
UTF8		Unicode	UTF8, Unicode20:BOM:UTF8
UTF32		Unicode	UTF32
UTF8		Unicode	UTF8, Unicode20:BOM:UTF8
UTF-EBCDIC		Unicode	UTF8-EBCDIC, UTF-8-EBCDIC