The constructors for TextDecoder
and TextDecoderStream
can be passed an optional label
, representing the encoding to be used. The default is UTF-8
.
The following table lists all encoding names and labels that user agents must support, as defined in the Encoding Spec. These are generally applicable anywhere character encodings are used.
Label | Encoding |
---|---|
"unicode-1-1-utf-8 ", "utf-8 ", "utf8 "
|
'utf-8' |
"866 ", "cp866 ", "csibm866 ",
"ibm866 " |
'ibm866' |
"csisolatin2 ", "iso-8859-2 ",
"iso-ir-101 ", "iso8859-2 ", "iso88592 ",
"iso_8859-2 ", "iso_8859-2:1987 ", "l2 ",
"latin2 " |
'iso-8859-2'
|
"csisolatin3 ", "iso-8859-3 ",
"iso-ir-109 ", "iso8859-3 ", "iso88593 ",
"iso_8859-3 ", "iso_8859-3:1988 ", "l3 ",
"latin3 " |
'iso-8859-3'
|
"csisolatin4 ", "iso-8859-4 ",
"iso-ir-110 ", "iso8859-4 ", "iso88594 ",
"iso_8859-4 ", "iso_8859-4:1988 ", "l4 ",
"latin4 " |
'iso-8859-4'
|
"csisolatincyrillic ", "cyrillic ",
"iso-8859-5 ", "iso-ir-144 ", "iso88595 ",
"iso_8859-5 ", "iso_8859-5:1988 " |
'iso-8859-5'
|
"arabic ", "asmo-708 ", "csiso88596e ",
"csiso88596i ", "csisolatinarabic ",
"ecma-114 ", "iso-8859-6 ",
"iso-8859-6-e ", "iso-8859-6-i ",
"iso-ir-127 ", "iso8859-6 ", "iso88596 ",
"iso_8859-6 ", "iso_8859-6:1987 " |
'iso-8859-6'
|
"csisolatingreek ", "ecma-118 ",
"elot_928 ", "greek ", "greek8 ",
"iso-8859-7 ", "iso-ir-126 ",
"iso8859-7 ", "iso88597 ", "iso_8859-7 ",
"iso_8859-7:1987 ", "sun_eu_greek " |
'iso-8859-7'
|
"csiso88598e ", "csisolatinhebrew ",
"hebrew ", "iso-8859-8 ", "iso-8859-8-e ",
"iso-ir-138 ", "iso8859-8 ", "iso88598 ",
"iso_8859-8 ", "iso_8859-8:1988 ",
"visual " |
'iso-8859-8'
|
"csiso88598i ", "iso-8859-8-i ",
"logical " |
'iso-8859-8i'
|
"csisolatin6 ", "iso-8859-10 ",
"iso-ir-157 ", "iso8859-10 ",
"iso885910 ", "l6 ", "latin6 " |
'iso-8859-10'
|
"iso-8859-13 ", "iso8859-13 ",
"iso885913 " |
'iso-8859-13'
|
"iso-8859-14 ", "iso8859-14 ",
"iso885914 " |
'iso-8859-14'
|
"csisolatin9 ", "iso-8859-15 ",
"iso8859-15 ", "iso885915 ", "l9 ",
"latin9 " |
'iso-8859-15'
|
"iso-8859-16 " |
'iso-8859-16'
|
"cskoi8r ", "koi ", "koi8 ",
"koi8-r ", "koi8_r " |
'koi8-r' |
"koi8-u " |
'koi8-u' |
"csmacintosh ", "mac ", "macintosh ",
"x-mac-roman " |
'macintosh' |
"dos-874 ", "iso-8859-11 ",
"iso8859-11 ", "iso885911 ", "tis-620 ",
"windows-874 " |
'windows-874' |
"cp1250 ", "windows-1250 ", "x-cp1250 "
|
'windows-1250'
|
"cp1251 ", "windows-1251 ", "x-cp1251 "
|
'windows-1251'
|
"ansi_x3.4-1968 ", "ascii ", "cp1252 ",
"cp819 ", "csisolatin1 ", "ibm819 ",
"iso-8859-1 ", "iso-ir-100 ",
"iso8859-1 ", "iso88591 ", "iso_8859-1 ",
"iso_8859-1:1987 ", "l1 ", "latin1 ",
"us-ascii ", "windows-1252 ", "x-cp1252 "
|
'windows-1252'
|
"cp1253 ", "windows-1253 ", "x-cp1253 "
|
'windows-1253'
|
"cp1254 ", "csisolatin5 ",
"iso-8859-9 ", "iso-ir-148 ",
"iso8859-9 ", "iso88599 ", "iso_8859-9 ",
"iso_8859-9:1989 ", "l5 ", "latin5 ",
"windows-1254 ", "x-cp1254 " |
'windows-1254'
|
"cp1255 ", "windows-1255 ", "x-cp1255 "
|
'windows-1255'
|
"cp1256 ", "windows-1256 ", "x-cp1256 "
|
'windows-1256'
|
"cp1257 ", "windows-1257 ", "x-cp1257 "
|
'windows-1257'
|
"cp1258 ", "windows-1258 ", "x-cp1258 "
|
'windows-1258'
|
"x-mac-cyrillic ", "x-mac-ukrainian " |
'x-mac-cyrillic'
|
"chinese ", "csgb2312 ",
"csiso58gb231280 ", "gb2312 ", "gb_2312 ",
"gb_2312-80 ", "gbk ", "iso-ir-58 ",
"x-gbk " |
'gbk' |
"gb18030 " |
'gb18030' |
"hz-gb-2312 " |
'hz-gb-2312'
|
"big5 ", "big5-hkscs ", "cn-big5 ",
"csbig5 ", "x-x-big5 " |
'big5' |
"cseucpkdfmtjapanese ", "euc-jp ",
"x-euc-jp " |
'euc-jp'
|
" Note: Firefox used to accept |
'iso-2022-jp'
|
"csshiftjis ", "ms_kanji ",
"shift-jis ", "shift_jis ", "sjis ",
"windows-31j ", "x-sjis " |
'shift-jis' |
"cseuckr ", "csksc56011987 ", "euc-kr ",
"iso-ir-149 ", "korean ",
"ks_c_5601-1987 ", "ks_c_5601-1989 ",
"ksc5601 ", "ksc_5601 ", "windows-949 "
|
'euc-kr'
|
"csiso2022kr ", "iso-2022-kr " |
'iso-2022-kr'
|
"utf-16be " |
'utf-16be'
|
"utf-16 ", "utf-16le " |
'utf-16le'
|
"x-user-defined " |
'x-user-defined' |
"iso-2022-cn ", "iso-2022-cn-ext " |
'replacement' |