Unicode | UTF-8 | You can both read and write all languages listed among the language scripts. Languages not listed there will only be displayed if you associate the Latin based script with a font that contains the necessary glyphs. Read James Kass's discussion on Plane One characters. |
UTF-7 | You can both read and write UTF-7 encoded email messages. Internet Explorer can display UTF-7 encoded web pages if UTF-7 is specified in the META tag but you cannot manually select UTF-7. |
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UTF-16 | Read-only. | |
Windows Single-Byte Codepages | All fully supported. | |
Windows Double-Byte Codepages | All fully supported except Japanese Shift-JIS, which is read-only in Outlook Express. You can write Japanese messages in ISO-2022-JP (listed as JIS) or UTF-8. |
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ISO-8859 | Supported |
ISO-8859-1 (Western) |
Not supported |
ISO-8859-3 (Maltese & Esperanto) Use UTF-8 or a Windows codepage instead. |
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ISO-2022 and HZ |
Simplified Chinese HZ is fully supported. Japanese ISO-2022-JP is fully supported in email but Internet Explorer can only display ISO-2022-JP encoded web pages if ISO-2022-JP is specified in the META tag. Korean ISO-2022-KR is read-only in email. Internet Explorer can only display ISO-2022-KR encoded web pages if ISO-2022-KR is specified in the META tag. |
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Extended Unix Code (EUC) |
Simplified Chinese EUC-CN is supported as a subset of GBK and Korean EUC-KR is supported as a subset of UHC. Japanese EUC-JP is read-only. |
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KOI8 |
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