Supported encoding names

The following list of names is a basic set of encoding names supported by the FileSystem object. Some of the character encoders are built in, while the operating system is queried for most of the other encoders.

Depending on the language packs installed, some of the encodings may not be available. Names that refer to the same encoding are listed in one line. Underlines are replaced with dashes before matching an encoding name.

Note, however, that the FileSystem object cannot process extended Unicode character with values greater than 65535. These characters are left encoded as specified in the UTF-16 standard in as two characters in the range from 0xD700-0xDFFF.

Built-in encodings are:

US-ASCII,ASCII,ISO646-US,ISO-646.IRV:1991,ISO-IR-6, ANSI-X3.4-1968,CP367,IBM367,US,ISO646.1991-IRV
UCS-2,UCS2, ISO-10646-UCS-2
UCS2LE,UCS-2LE,ISO-10646-UCS-2LE
UCS2BE,UCS-2BE,ISO-10646-UCS-2BE
UCS-4,UCS4, ISO-10646-UCS-4
UCS4LE,UCS-4LE,ISO-10646-UCS-4LE
UCS4BE,UCS-4BE,ISO-10646-UCS-4BE
UTF-8,UTF8,UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8,UNICODE-2-0-UTF-8,X-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-8
UTF16,UTF-16,ISO-10646-UTF-16
UTF16LE,UTF-16LE,ISO-10646-UTF-16LE
UTF16BE,UTF-16BE,ISO-10646-UTF-16BE
CP1252,WINDOWS-1252,MS-ANSI
ISO-8859-1,ISO-8859-1,ISO-8859-1:1987,ISO-IR-100,LATIN1
MACINTOSH,X-MAC-ROMAN
BINARY

The ASCII encoder raises errors for characters greater than 127, and the BINARY encoder simply converts between bytes and Unicode characters by using the lower 8 bits. This encoder is convenient for reading and writing binary data.

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Additional encodings
Common encoding names
Additional Windows encoding names
Additional Macintosh encoding names