Editing Character encoding (section)

== Common character encodings ==
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{{Expand section|Popularity and comparison:
* Statistics on popularity
* Especially, a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the few 3-5 most common character encodings (e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32)|date=June 2024}}
The [[Popularity of text encodings|most used character encoding]] on the [[World Wide Web|web]] is [[UTF-8]], used in 98.2% of surveyed web sites, as of May 2024.<ref name="W3TechsWebEncoding" /> In [[Application software|application programs]] and [[operating system]] tasks, both UTF-8 and [[UTF-16]] are popular options.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Galloway |first=Matt |date=9 October 2012 |title=Character encoding for iOS developers. Or UTF-8 what now? |url=https://www.galloway.me.uk/2012/10/character-encoding-for-ios-developers-utf8/ |access-date=2021-01-02 |website=Matt Galloway |language=en |quote=in reality, you usually just assume UTF-8 since that is by far the most common encoding. }}</ref>
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* [[ISO/IEC 646|ISO 646]]
** [[ASCII]]
* [[EBCDIC]]
* [[ISO/IEC 8859|ISO 8859]]:
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-1|ISO 8859-1]] Western Europe
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-2|ISO 8859-2]] Western and Central Europe
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-3|ISO 8859-3]] Western Europe and South European (Turkish, Maltese plus Esperanto)
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-4|ISO 8859-4]] Western Europe and Baltic countries (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Lapp)
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-5|ISO 8859-5]] Cyrillic alphabet
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-6|ISO 8859-6]] Arabic
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-7|ISO 8859-7]] Greek
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-8|ISO 8859-8]] Hebrew
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-9|ISO 8859-9]] Western Europe with amended Turkish character set
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-10|ISO 8859-10]] Western Europe with rationalised character set for Nordic languages, including complete Icelandic set
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-11|ISO 8859-11]] Thai
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-13|ISO 8859-13]] Baltic languages plus Polish
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-14|ISO 8859-14]] Celtic languages (Irish Gaelic, Scottish, Welsh)
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-15|ISO 8859-15]] Added the Euro sign and other rationalisations to ISO 8859-1
** [[ISO/IEC 8859-16|ISO 8859-16]] Central, Eastern and Southern European languages (Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian and Slovenian, but also French, German, Italian and Irish Gaelic)
* [[Code page 437|CP437]], CP720, [[Code page 737|CP737]], [[Code page 850|CP850]], CP852, CP855, CP857, [[Code page 858|CP858]], CP860, [[Code page 861|CP861]], [[Code page 862|CP862]], [[Code page 863|CP863]], [[Code page 865|CP865]], [[Code page 866|CP866]], [[Code page 869|CP869]], [[Code page 872|CP872]]
* [[Windows code page|MS-Windows character sets]]:
** [[Windows-1250]] for Central European languages that use Latin script, (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Romanian and Albanian)
** [[Windows-1251]] for Cyrillic alphabets
** [[Windows-1252]] for Western languages
** [[Windows-1253]] for Greek
** [[Windows-1254]] for Turkish
** [[Windows-1255]] for Hebrew
** [[Windows-1256]] for Arabic
** [[Windows-1257]] for Baltic languages
** [[Windows-1258]] for Vietnamese
* [[Mac OS Roman]]
* [[KOI8-R]], [[KOI8-U]], [[KOI7]]
* [[MIK Code page|MIK]]
* [[Indian Script Code for Information Interchange|ISCII]]
* [[Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange|TSCII]]
* [[Vietnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange|VISCII]]
* [[JIS X 0208]] is a widely deployed standard for Japanese character encoding that has several encoding forms.
** [[Shift JIS]] (Microsoft [[Code page 932 (Microsoft Windows)|Code page 932]] is a dialect of Shift_JIS)
** [[Extended Unix Code|EUC-JP]]
** [[ISO/IEC 2022|ISO-2022-JP]]
* [[JIS X 0213]] is an extended version of JIS X 0208.
** [[Shift JIS|Shift_JIS-2004]]
** [[Extended Unix Code|EUC-JIS-2004]]
** [[ISO/IEC 2022|ISO-2022-JP-2004]]
* Chinese [[List of GB standards|Guobiao]]
** [[GB 2312]]
** [[GBK (character encoding)|GBK]] (Microsoft Code page 936)
** [[GB 18030]]
* Taiwan [[Big5]] (a more famous variant is Microsoft [[Code page 950]])
** Hong Kong [[HKSCS]]
* Korean
** [[KS X 1001]] is a Korean double-byte character encoding standard
** [[Extended Unix Code#EUC-KR|EUC-KR]]
** [[ISO/IEC 2022|ISO-2022-KR]]
* [[Unicode]] (and subsets thereof, such as the 16-bit 'Basic Multilingual Plane')
** [[UTF-8]]
** [[UTF-16]]
** [[UTF-32]]
* [[ANSEL]] or [[ISO/IEC 6937]]
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