2.2.1 Supported Codepage in Windows
Windows assigns an integer, called code page ID, to every supported codepage.
Based on the usage, the codepage supported in Windows can be categorized in the following:
ANSI codepage
Windows codepages are also sometimes referred to as active codepages or system active codepages. Windows always has one currently active Windows codepage. All ANSI Windows functions use the currently active codepage.
The usual ANSI codepage ID for US English is codepage 1252.
Windows codepage 1252, the codepage commonly used for English and other Western European languages, was based on an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) draft. That draft eventually became ISO 8859-1, but Windows codepage 1252 was implemented before the standard became final, and is not exactly the same as ISO 8859-1.
OEM codepage
Extended codepage
These codepages cannot be used as ANSI codepages, or OEM codepages. Windows can support conversions between Unicode and these codepages. These codepages are generally used for information exchange purpose with international/national standard or legacy systems. Examples are UTF-8, UTF-7, EBCDIC, and Macintosh codepages.
The following table shows all the supported codepages by Windows. The Codepage ID lists the integer number assigned to a codepage. ANSI/OEM codepages are in bold face. The Codepage Description column describes the codepage. The Codepage notes column lists the category of a codepage and the relevant protocol section in this document to find protocol information.
|
Codepage ID |
Codepage descriptions |
Codepage notes |
|---|---|---|
|
37 |
IBM EBCDIC US-Canada |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
437 |
OEM United States |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
500 |
IBM EBCDIC International |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
708 |
Arabic (ASMO 708) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
720 |
Arabic (Transparent ASMO); Arabic (DOS) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
737 |
OEM Greek (formerly 437G); Greek (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
775 |
OEM Baltic; Baltic (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
850 |
OEM Multilingual Latin 1; Western European (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
852 |
OEM Latin 2; Central European (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
855 |
OEM Cyrillic (primarily Russian) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
857 |
OEM Turkish; Turkish (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
858 |
OEM Multilingual Latin 1 + Euro symbol |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
860 |
OEM Portuguese; Portuguese (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
861 |
OEM Icelandic; Icelandic (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
862 |
OEM Hebrew; Hebrew (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
863 |
OEM French Canadian; French Canadian (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
864 |
OEM Arabic; Arabic (864) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
865 |
OEM Nordic; Nordic (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
866 |
OEM Russian; Cyrillic (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
869 |
OEM Modern Greek; Greek, Modern (DOS) |
OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
870 |
IBM EBCDIC Multilingual/ROECE (Latin 2); IBM EBCDIC Multilingual Latin 2 |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
874 |
ANSI/OEM Thai (same as 28605, ISO 8859-15); Thai (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
875 |
IBM EBCDIC Greek Modern |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
932 |
ANSI/OEM Japanese; Japanese (Shift-JIS) |
ANSI/OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
936 |
ANSI/OEM Simplified Chinese (PRC, Singapore); Chinese Simplified (GB2312) |
ANSI/OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
949 |
ANSI/OEM Korean (Unified Hangul Code) |
ANSI/OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
950 |
ANSI/OEM Traditional Chinese (Taiwan; Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Chinese Traditional (Big5) |
ANSI/OEM codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1026 |
IBM EBCDIC Turkish (Latin 5) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1047 |
IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1140 |
IBM EBCDIC US-Canada (037 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1141 |
IBM EBCDIC Germany (20273 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Germany-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1142 |
IBM EBCDIC Denmark-Norway (20277 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1143 |
IBM EBCDIC Finland-Sweden (20278 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1144 |
IBM EBCDIC Italy (20280 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Italy-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1145 |
IBM EBCDIC Latin America-Spain (20284 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Spain-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1146 |
IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom (20285 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (UK-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1147 |
IBM EBCDIC France (20297 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (France-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1148 |
IBM EBCDIC International (500 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (International-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1149 |
IBM EBCDIC Icelandic (20871 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic-Euro) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1200 |
Unicode UTF-16, little-endian byte order (BMP of ISO 10646); available only to managed applications |
Not used in Windows. |
|
1201 |
Unicode UTF-16, big-endian byte order; available only to managed applications |
Not used in Windows. |
|
1250 |
ANSI Central European; Central European (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1251 |
ANSI Cyrillic; Cyrillic (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1252 |
ANSI Latin 1; Western European (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1253 |
ANSI Greek; Greek (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1254 |
ANSI Turkish; Turkish (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1255 |
ANSI Hebrew; Hebrew (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1256 |
ANSI Arabic; Arabic (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1257 |
ANSI Baltic; Baltic (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1258 |
ANSI/OEM Vietnamese; Vietnamese (Windows) |
ANSI codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
1361 |
Korean (Johab) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10000 |
MAC Roman; Western European (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10001 |
Japanese (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10002 |
MAC Traditional Chinese (Big5); Chinese Traditional (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10003 |
Korean (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10004 |
Arabic (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10005 |
Hebrew (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10006 |
Greek (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10007 |
Cyrillic (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10008 |
MAC Simplified Chinese (GB 2312); Chinese Simplified (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10010 |
Romanian (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10017 |
Ukrainian (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10021 |
Thai (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10029 |
MAC Latin 2; Central European (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10079 |
Icelandic (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10081 |
Turkish (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
10082 |
Croatian (Mac) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
12000 |
Unicode UTF-32, little-endian byte order; available only to managed applications |
Not used in Windows. |
|
12001 |
Unicode UTF-32, big-endian byte order; available only to managed applications |
Not used in Windows. |
|
20000 |
CNS Taiwan; Chinese Traditional (CNS) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20001 |
TCA Taiwan |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20002 |
Eten Taiwan; Chinese Traditional (Eten) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20003 |
IBM5550 Taiwan |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20004 |
TeleText Taiwan |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20005 |
Wang Taiwan |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20105 |
IA5 (IRV International Alphabet No. 5, 7-bit); Western European (IA5) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20106 |
IA5 German (7-bit) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20107 |
IA5 Swedish (7-bit) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20108 |
IA5 Norwegian (7-bit) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20127 |
US-ASCII (7-bit) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20261 |
T.61 |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20269 |
ISO 6937 Non-Spacing Accent |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20273 |
IBM EBCDIC Germany |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20277 |
IBM EBCDIC Denmark-Norway |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20278 |
IBM EBCDIC Finland-Sweden |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20280 |
IBM EBCDIC Italy |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20284 |
IBM EBCDIC Latin America-Spain |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20285 |
IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20290 |
IBM EBCDIC Japanese Katakana Extended |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20297 |
IBM EBCDIC France |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20420 |
IBM EBCDIC Arabic |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20423 |
IBM EBCDIC Greek |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20424 |
IBM EBCDIC Hebrew |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20833 |
IBM EBCDIC Korean Extended |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20838 |
IBM EBCDIC Thai |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20866 |
Russian (KOI8-R); Cyrillic (KOI8-R) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20871 |
IBM EBCDIC Icelandic |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20880 |
IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic Russian |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20905 |
IBM EBCDIC Turkish |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20924 |
IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System (1047 + Euro symbol) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20932 |
Japanese (JIS 0208-1990 and 0121-1990) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20936 |
Simplified Chinese (GB2312); Chinese Simplified (GB2312-80) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
20949 |
Korean Wansung |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
21025 |
IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic Serbian-Bulgarian |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
21027 |
Ext Alpha Lowercase |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. NOTE: Although this codepage is supported, it has no known use. |
|
21866 |
Ukrainian (KOI8-U); Cyrillic (KOI8-U) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28591 |
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28592 |
ISO 8859-2 Central European; Central European (ISO) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28593 |
ISO 8859-3 Latin 3 |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28594 |
ISO 8859-4 Baltic |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28595 |
ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28596 |
ISO 8859-6 Arabic |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28597 |
ISO 8859-7 Greek |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28598 |
ISO 8859-8 Hebrew; Hebrew (ISO-Visual) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28599 |
ISO 8859-9 Turkish |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28603 |
ISO 8859-13 Estonian |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
28605 |
ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
38598 |
ISO 8859-8 Hebrew; Hebrew (ISO-Logical) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. Use [CODEPAGEFILES] 28598.txt. |
|
50220 |
ISO 2022 Japanese with no halfwidth Katakana; Japanese (JIS) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.1. |
|
50221 |
ISO 2022 Japanese with halfwidth Katakana; Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. |
|
50222 |
ISO 2022 Japanese JIS X 0201-1989; Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. |
|
50225 |
ISO 2022 Korean |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. |
|
50227 |
ISO 2022 Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (ISO 2022) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. |
|
50229 |
ISO 2022 Traditional Chinese |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. |
|
51949 |
EUC Korean |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. Use [CODEPAGEFILES] 20949.txt. |
|
52936 |
HZ-GB2312 Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (HZ) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.2. |
|
54936 |
GB18030 Simplified Chinese (4 byte); Chinese Simplified (GB18030) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.3. |
|
57002 |
ISCII Devanagari |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57003 |
ISCII Bengali |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57004 |
ISCII Tamil |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57005 |
ISCII Telugu |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57006 |
ISCII Assamese |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57007 |
ISCII Odia (was Oriya) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57008 |
ISCII Kannada |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57009 |
ISCII Malayalam |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57010 |
ISCII Gujarati |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
57011 |
ISCII Punjabi |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.4. |
|
65000 |
Unicode (UTF-7) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.5. |
|
65001 |
Unicode (UTF-8) |
Extended codepage; for processing rules, see section 3.1.5.1.6. |