# XML and HTML encodings

The HTML and XML editors support the following encodings. The IANA name is used in the encoding statement of an XML file, or charset directive in an HTML file.

XML Encoding (IANA Name) | Description
--- | ---
BIG5 | Big5, Traditional Chinese
EUC-JP | EUC encoding, Japanese
EUC-KR | EUC encoding, Korean
GB2312 | GBK, Simplified Chinese
GB18030 | National Standard, Chinese
IBM864 | PC Arabic
ISO-2022-JP | ISO 2022, Japanese
ISO-2022-KR | ISO 2022, Korean
ISO-8859-1 | ISO Latin-1
ISO-8859-2 | Central/East European (Slavic)
ISO-8859-3 | Southern European
ISO-8859-4 | ISO 8859-4, Cyrillic
ISO-8859-5 | ISO 8859-5, Cyrillic
ISO-8859-6 | Arabic (Logical)
ISO-8859-7 | Greek
ISO-8859-8-I | Hebrew (Logical)
ISO-8859-8 | Hebrew (Visual)
ISO-8859-9 | Turkish
SHIFT_JIS | Shift-JIS, Japanese
TIS-620 | TISI, Thai
US-ASCII | US ASCII
UTF-8 | ISO 10646/Unicode, one-byte encoding
UTF-16 | ISO 10646/Unicode, two-byte encoding
UTF-16BE | Unicode BigEndian
UTF-16LE | Unicode LittleEndian
WINDOWS-874 | Thai, Microsoft®
WINDOWS-1252 | ISO Latin-1
WINDOWS-1255 | Hebrew
WINDOWS-1256 | Arabic
X-EUC-JP | EUC encoding, Japanese (alias for EUC-JP)
X-SJIS | Shift-JIS, Japanese (alias for SHIFT_JIS)

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