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13.2.8. Character Set Encoding
A character set encoding specifies how to convert between raw 8-bit
"characters" and their 16-bit Unicode equivalents. Character sets are
named using their standard and common names. The local platform
defines which character set encodings are understood, but every imple-
mentation is required to support the following:
7-bit
ASCII
, also known as
ISO646-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-endi-
an byte order
UTF-16BE
16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-en-
dian byte order
UTF-16LE
16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte or-
der specified by a mandatory initial byte-order
mark (either order accepted on input, big-endi-
an used on output)
UTF-16
Consult the release documentation for your implementation to see if any
other character set encodings are supported.
