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Table 6. Required Character Sets
Charset
Description
7-bit
ASCII
, also known as
ISO-646-US
and as
the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character
set
US-ASCII
ISO
Latin Alphabet No. 1, also known as
ISO-
LATIN-1
ISO-8859-1
8-bit Unicode Transformation Format
UTF-8
16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-en-
dian order
UTF-16BE
16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-
endian order
UTF-16LE
16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte
order specified by a mandatory initial byte-or-
der mark (either order accepted on input, big-
endian used on output)
UTF-16
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