Character Sets supported in MS Windows
| CharSet Value | Windows CodePage | Description |
| windows-1250 | 1250 | Central European Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1251 | 1251 | Cyrillic Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1252 | 1252 | Western European Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1253 | 1253 | Greek Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1254 | 1254 | Turkish Alphabet |
| windows-1255 | 1255 | Hebrew Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1256 | 1256 | Arabic Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1257 | 1257 | Baltic Alphabet (Windows) |
| windows-1258 | 1258 | Vietnamese Alphabet (Windows) |
| iso-8859-1 | 1252 | Western Alphabet |
| iso-8859-1 | 28591 | Western Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-2 | 28592 | Central European Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-3 | 28593 | Latin 3 Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-4 | 28594 | Baltic Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-5 | 28595 | Cyrillic Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-6 | 28596 | Arabic Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-7 | 28597 | Greek Alphabet (ISO) |
| iso-8859-8 | 28598 | Hebrew Alphabet (ISO) |
| unicode | 1200 | Universal Alphabet |
| unicodeFEFF | 1201 | Universal Alphabet (Big-Endian) |
| utf-7 | 65000 | Universal Alphabet (UTF-7) |
| utf-8 | 65001 | Universal Alphabet (UTF-8) |
| iso-2022-jp | 50220 | Japanese (JIS) |
| iso-2022-jp | 50222 | Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) |
| iso-2022-kr | 50225 | Korean (ISO) |
| DIN_66003 | 20106 | IA5 (German) |
| NS_4551-1 | 20108 | IA5 (Norwegian) |
| SEN_850200_B | 20107 | IA5 (Swedish) |
| _autodetect | 50932 | Japanese (Auto Select) |
| _autodetect_kr | 50949 | Korean (Auto Select) |
| big5 | 950 | Chinese Traditional (Big5) |
| csISO2022JP | 50221 | Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) |
| euc-kr | 51949 | Korean (EUC) |
| gb2312 | 936 | Chinese Simplified (GB2312) |
| hz-gb-2312 | 52936 | Chinese Simplified (HZ) |
| ibm852 | 852 | Central European (DOS) |
| ibm866 | 866 | Cyrillic Alphabet (DOS) |
| irv | 20105 | IA5 (IRV) |
| koi8-r | 20866 | Cyrillic Alphabet (KOI8-R) |
| ks_c_5601 | 949 | Korean |
| shift-jis | 932 | Japanese (Shift-JIS) |
| windows-874 | 874 | Thai (Windows) |
| x-euc | 51932 | Japanese (EUC) |
| x-user-defined | 50000 | User Defined |