Supported encodings
The following encodings are supported by the Language Detection API.
Please use the encoding name listed in the first column (Encoding) when you specify an encoding parameter in your API request.
| Encoding | Aliases |
|---|---|
| Big5 | csBig5 |
| Big5-HKSCS | big5-hkscs:unicode3.0, Big5_HKSCS, big5-hkscs, big5hkscs, big5hk |
| EUC-JP | eucjis, Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese, x-eucjp, eucjp, csEUCPkdFmtjapanese, euc_jp, x-euc-jp |
| EUC-KR | 5601, ksc5601-1987, ksc5601_1987, euckr, ksc5601, ksc_5601, ks_c_5601-1987, euc_kr, csEUCKR |
| GB18030 | gb18030-2000 |
| GB2312 | euc-cn, x-EUC-CN, gb2312-1980, gb2312, gb2312-80, euccn, EUC_CN |
| GBK | CP936, windows-936 |
| IBM-Thai | 838, cp838, ibm838, ibm-838 |
| IBM00858 | cp858, ccsid00858, 858, cp00858 |
| IBM01140 | ccsid01140, cp01140, 1140, cp1140 |
| IBM01141 | cp1141, ccsid01141, cp01141, 1141 |
| IBM01142 | cp01142, cp1142, 1142, ccsid01142 |
| IBM01143 | cp01143, 1143, ccsid01143, cp1143 |
| IBM01144 | cp01144, cp1144, ccsid01144, 1144 |
| IBM01145 | cp1145, cp01145, ccsid01145, 1145 |
| IBM01146 | ccsid01146, cp01146, cp1146, 1146 |
| IBM01147 | ccsid01147, cp1147, 1147, cp01147 |
| IBM01148 | cp1148, ccsid01148, 1148, cp01148 |
| IBM01149 | cp1149, cp01149, ccsid01149, 1149 |
| IBM037 | cs-ebcdic-cp-nl, 037, cp037, ebcdic-cp-nl, ibm-37, ebcdic-cp-wt, cs-ebcdic-cp-us, ebcdic-cp-ca, cs-ebcdic-cp-wt, csIBM037, ibm-037, cs-ebcdic-cp-ca, cpibm37, ibm037, ebcdic-cp-us |
| IBM1026 | cp1026, ibm-1026, 1026, ibm1026 |
| IBM1047 | cp1047, 1047, ibm-1047 |
| IBM273 | ibm-273, ibm273, cp273, 273 |
| IBM277 | cp277, 277, ibm-277, ibm277 |
| IBM278 | cp278, ebcdic-cp-se, 278, ibm278, ebcdic-sv, ibm-278, csIBM278 |
| IBM280 | 280, ibm-280, cp280, ibm280 |
| IBM284 | cpibm284, csIBM284, ibm284, cp284, 284, ibm-284 |
| IBM285 | ibm285, ebcdic-cp-gb, cpibm285, cp285, csIBM285, ebcdic-gb, 285, ibm-285 |
| IBM297 | cp297, ibm297, 297, cpibm297, ebcdic-cp-fr, ibm-297, csIBM297 |
| IBM420 | ibm420, cp420, 420, ibm-420, csIBM420, ebcdic-cp-ar1 |
| IBM424 | csIBM424, ibm-424, ibm424, cp424, ebcdic-cp-he, 424 |
| IBM437 | ibm-437, windows-437, cspc8codepage437, 437, ibm437, cp437 |
| IBM500 | ibm-500, ebcdic-cp-bh, cp500, csIBM500, ibm500, ebcdic-cp-ch, 500 |
| IBM775 | ibm-775, cp775, ibm775, 775 |
| IBM850 | ibm-850, cp850, 850, cspc850multilingual, ibm850 |
| IBM852 | ibm852, csPCp852, 852, ibm-852, cp852 |
| IBM855 | cspcp855, 855, ibm855, ibm-855, cp855 |
| IBM857 | csIBM857, 857, ibm-857, cp857, ibm857 |
| IBM860 | 860, cp860, ibm-860, csIBM860, ibm860 |
| IBM861 | 861, cp-is, ibm-861, cp861, csIBM861, ibm861 |
| IBM862 | ibm-862, ibm862, csIBM862, cp862, cspc862latinhebrew, 862 |
| IBM863 | ibm863, csIBM863, cp863, 863, ibm-863 |
| IBM864 | csIBM864, ibm864, 864, cp864, ibm-864 |
| IBM865 | csIBM865, ibm865, 865, ibm-865, cp865 |
| IBM866 | 866, ibm-866, ibm866, csIBM866, cp866 |
| IBM868 | 868, ibm-868, cp868, csIBM868, cp-ar, ibm868 |
| IBM869 | 869, ibm-869, cp869, csIBM869, cp-gr, ibm869 |
| IBM870 | ibm-870, ebcdic-cp-roece, ebcdic-cp-yu, ibm870, csIBM870, cp870, 870 |
| IBM871 | ibm-871, 871, ebcdic-cp-is, cp871, csIBM871, ibm871 |
| IBM918 | cp918, ebcdic-cp-ar2, ibm-918, 918 |
| ISO-2022-CN | ISO2022CN, csISO2022CN |
| ISO-2022-JP | jis_encoding, csjisencoding, jis, iso2022jp, csISO2022JP |
| ISO-2022-JP-2 | csISO2022JP2, iso2022jp2 |
| ISO-2022-KR | csISO2022KR, ISO2022KR |
| ISO-8859-1 | csISOLatin1, IBM-819, iso-ir-100, 8859_1, ISO_8859-1, l1, ISO8859-1, ISO_8859_1, cp819, ISO8859_1, latin1, ISO_8859-1:1987, 819, IBM819 |
| ISO-8859-13 | 8859_13, iso8859_13, iso_8859-13, ISO8859-13 |
| ISO-8859-15 | IBM923, 8859_15, ISO_8859-15, ISO-8859-15, L9, ISO8859-15, ISO8859_15_FDIS, 923, LATIN0, csISOlatin9, LATIN9, csISOlatin0, IBM-923, ISO8859_15, cp923 |
| ISO-8859-2 | iso-ir-101, csISOLatin2, ibm-912, 8859_2, l2, ISO_8859-2, ibm912, 912, ISO8859-2, latin2, iso8859_2, ISO_8859-2:1987, cp912 |
| ISO-8859-3 | ibm-913, csISOLatin3, iso-ir-109, l3, 8859_3, ibm913, ISO_8859-3, ISO8859-3, 913, latin3, iso8859_3, ISO_8859-3:1988, cp913 |
| ISO-8859-4 | iso-ir-110, iso8859-4, ibm914, ibm-914, l4, csISOLatin4, 914, 8859_4, latin4, ISO_8859-4, ISO_8859-4:1988, iso8859_4, cp914 |
| ISO-8859-5 | cp915, ISO8859-5, ibm915, ISO_8859-5:1988, ibm-915, 8859_5, 915, cyrillic, iso8859_5, ISO_8859-5, iso-ir-144, csISOLatinCyrillic |
| ISO-8859-6 | arabic, ibm1089, iso8859_6, iso-ir-127, 8859_6, cp1089, ECMA-114, ISO_8859-6, csISOLatinArabic, ibm-1089, 1089, ISO8859-6, ASMO-708, ISO_8859-6:1987 |
| ISO-8859-7 | iso8859-7, sun_eu_greek, csISOLatinGreek, 813, ISO_8859-7, ISO_8859-7:1987, ibm-813, greek, greek8, iso8859_7, ECMA-118, iso-ir-126, 8859_7, cp813, ibm813, ELOT_928 |
| ISO-8859-8 | ibm916, cp916, csISOLatinHebrew, ISO_8859-8, ISO8859-8, ibm-916, iso8859_8, hebrew, 916, iso-ir-138, ISO_8859-8:1988, 8859_8 |
| ISO-8859-9 | ISO_8859-9, 920, iso8859_9, csISOLatin5, l5, 8859_9, latin5, ibm920, iso-ir-148, ISO_8859-9:1989, ISO8859-9, cp920, ibm-920 |
| JIS_X0201 | JIS0201, JIS_X0201, X0201, csHalfWidthKatakana |
| JIS_X0212-1990 | csISO159JISX02121990, x0212, jis_x0212-1990, iso-ir-159, JIS0212 |
| KOI8-R | cskoi8r, koi8_r, koi8 |
| KOI8-U | koi8_u |
| Shift_JIS | x-sjis, shift_jis, sjis, ms_kanji, shift-jis, csShiftJIS |
| TIS-620 | tis620.2533, tis620 |
| US-ASCII | cp367, ascii7, ISO646-US, 646, csASCII, us, iso_646.irv:1983, ISO_646.irv:1991, IBM367, ASCII, default, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ANSI_X3.4-1968, iso-ir-6 |
| UTF-16 | utf16, UTF_16, UnicodeBig, unicode |
| UTF-16BE | X-UTF-16BE, UTF_16BE, ISO-10646-UCS-2, UnicodeBigUnmarked |
| UTF-16LE | UnicodeLittleUnmarked, UTF_16LE, X-UTF-16LE |
| UTF-32 | UTF_32, UTF32 |
| UTF-32BE | X-UTF-32BE, UTF_32BE |
| UTF-32LE | X-UTF-32LE, UTF_32LE |
| UTF-8 | UTF8, unicode-1-1-utf-8 |
| windows-1250 | cp1250, cp5346 |
| windows-1251 | ansi-1251, cp5347, cp1251 |
| windows-1252 | cp1252, cp5348 |
| windows-1253 | cp1253, cp5349 |
| windows-1254 | cp1254, cp5350 |
| windows-1255 | cp1255 |
| windows-1256 | cp1256 |
| windows-1257 | cp1257, cp5353 |
| windows-1258 | cp1258 |
| windows-31j | csWindows31J, windows-932, MS932 |
| x-Big5-Solaris | Big5_Solaris |
| x-COMPOUND_TEXT | x-compound-text, COMPOUND_TEXT, x11-compound_text |
| x-euc-jp-linux | euc-jp-linux, euc_jp_linux |
| x-EUC-TW | euc_tw, EUC-TW, cns11643, euctw |
| x-eucJP-Open | EUC_JP_Solaris, eucJP-open |
| x-IBM1006 | cp1006, ibm-1006, ibm1006, 1006 |
| x-IBM1025 | cp1025, ibm-1025, 1025, ibm1025 |
| x-IBM1046 | ibm-1046, cp1046, ibm1046, 1046 |
| x-IBM1097 | cp1097, 1097, ibm-1097, ibm1097 |
| x-IBM1098 | ibm-1098, cp1098, ibm1098, 1098 |
| x-IBM1112 | ibm-1112, 1112, ibm1112, cp1112 |
| x-IBM1122 | cp1122, ibm-1122, 1122, ibm1122 |
| x-IBM1123 | cp1123, ibm-1123, 1123, ibm1123 |
| x-IBM1124 | cp1124, ibm-1124, 1124, ibm1124 |
| x-IBM1381 | ibm1381, cp1381, ibm-1381, 1381 |
| x-IBM1383 | cp1383, 1383, ibm1383, ibm-1383 |
| x-IBM33722 | ibm33722, 33722, ibm-33722_vascii_vpua, ibm-5050, ibm-33722, cp33722 |
| x-IBM737 | cp737, ibm-737, 737, ibm737 |
| x-IBM834 | ibm834, ibm-834, cp834 |
| x-IBM856 | 856, cp856, ibm-856, ibm856 |
| x-IBM874 | cp874, ibm874, 874, ibm-874 |
| x-IBM875 | ibm875, 875, cp875, ibm-875 |
| x-IBM921 | cp921, ibm921, ibm-921, 921 |
| x-IBM922 | ibm922, ibm-922, cp922, 922 |
| x-IBM930 | cp930, ibm930, ibm-930, 930 |
| x-IBM933 | cp933, 933, ibm933, ibm-933 |
| x-IBM935 | ibm935, cp935, 935, ibm-935 |
| x-IBM937 | ibm-937, cp937, 937, ibm937 |
| x-IBM939 | ibm-939, ibm939, cp939, 939 |
| x-IBM942 | ibm-942, ibm942, cp942, 942 |
| x-IBM942C | 942C, ibm942C, cp942C, ibm-942C |
| x-IBM943 | 943, ibm-943, cp943, ibm943 |
| x-IBM943C | ibm-943C, 943C, cp943C, ibm943C |
| x-IBM948 | ibm948, ibm-948, cp948, 948 |
| x-IBM949 | ibm949, ibm-949, 949, cp949 |
| x-IBM949C | cp949C, 949C, ibm-949C, ibm949C |
| x-IBM950 | 950, ibm950, cp950, ibm-950 |
| x-IBM964 | 964, cp964, ibm-964, ibm964 |
| x-IBM970 | 970, ibm-970, ibm970, cp970, ibm-eucKR |
| x-ISCII91 | iso-ir-153, ST_SEV_358-88, ISCII91, iscii, csISO153GOST1976874 |
| x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS | ISO-2022-CN-CNS, ISO2022CN_CNS |
| x-ISO-2022-CN-GB | ISO-2022-CN-GB, ISO2022CN_GB |
| x-iso-8859-11 | iso-8859-11, iso8859_11 |
| x-JIS0208 | JIS_X0208-1983, x0208, JIS0208, JIS_C6226-1983, iso-ir-87, csISO87JISX0208 |
| x-JISAutoDetect | JISAutoDetect |
| x-Johab | ksc5601_1992, ms1361, ksc5601-1992, johab |
| x-MacArabic | MacArabic |
| x-MacCentralEurope | MacCentralEurope |
| x-MacCroatian | MacCroatian |
| x-MacCyrillic | MacCyrillic |
| x-MacDingbat | MacDingbat |
| x-MacGreek | MacGreek |
| x-MacHebrew | MacHebrew |
| x-MacIceland | MacIceland |
| x-MacRoman | MacRoman |
| x-MacRomania | MacRomania |
| x-MacSymbol | MacSymbol |
| x-MacThai | MacThai |
| x-MacTurkish | MacTurkish |
| x-MacUkraine | MacUkraine |
| x-MS950-HKSCS | MS950_HKSCS |
| x-mswin-936 | ms936, ms_936 |
| x-PCK | pck |
| x-UTF-16LE-BOM | UnicodeLittle |
| X-UTF-32BE-BOM | UTF_32BE_BOM, UTF-32BE-BOM |
| X-UTF-32LE-BOM | UTF_32LE_BOM, UTF-32LE-BOM |
| x-windows-50220 | cp50220, ms50220 |
| x-windows-50221 | ms50221, cp50221 |
| x-windows-874 | ms-874, ms874, windows-874 |
| x-windows-949 | windows-949, ms_949, windows949, ms949 |
| x-windows-950 | ms950, windows-950 |
| x-windows-iso2022jp | windows-iso2022jp |