Transcoder Names

This table lists the transcoder name for each character encoding set currently supported by the transcoding classes and their corresponding names on various platforms. Use the name listed in the "Open Class Transcoder Name" column to create a transcoder for a particular character encoding set.

Open Class Transcoder Names

Character set Open Class Transcoder Name WinNT code page OS/2 code page AIX code page
ASCII US-ASCII 1252 IBM-1252 ISO8859-1
Latin 1/ANSI ISO-8859-1 1252 IBM-1252 ISO8859-1
EasternEurope ISO-8859-2 1250 - close IBM-1250 ISO8859-2
Microsoft
Eastern Europe 		MSCP-1250 1250 n/a n/a
Other Latin Set ISO-8859-3 n/a n/a ISO8859-3
Other Latin Set ISO-8859-4 n/a n/a ISO8859-4
ISO Cyrillic ISO-8859-5 n/a IBM-1251 ISO8859-5
Microsoft Cyrillic MSCP-1252 1251 n/a n/a
ISO Arabic ISO-8859-6 n/a IBM-1256 ISO8859-6
Microsoft Arabic MSCP-1256 1256 n/a n/a
ISO Greek ISO-8859-7 1253 - close IBM-1253 ISO8859-7
Microsoft Greek MSCP-1253 1253 n/a n/a
ISO Hebrew ISO-8859-8 1255 - close IBM-1255 ISO8859-8
Microsoft Hebrew MSCP-1255 1255 n/a n/a
ISO Turkish ISO-8859-9 1254 - superset IBM-1254 ISO8859-9
Microsoft Turkish MSCP-1254 1254 n/a n/a
IBM Shift JIS Shift-JIS n/a n/a IBM-932
Microsoft
Shift JIS 		Shift-JIS 932 - superset n/a n/a
IBM EUC EUC n/a n/a IBM-eucJP
IBM Simplified Chinese GB-2312.1980 n/a n/a IBM-eucCN
IBM Korean KSC-5601 n/a IBM-949 IBM-eucKR
IBM Traditional Chinese CNS-11643.1986 n/a IBM-950 IBM-eucTW
8-bit UTF UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8
Macintosh Roman MSCP-10000 10000 n/a n/a
MS-DOS US MSCP-437 437 n/a n/a
DOS US IBM-437 n/a IBM-437 IBM-437
MS-DOS
Multilingual 		MSCP-850 850 n/a n/a
DOS Multilingual IBM-850 n/a IBM-850 IBM-850