# MatchEncoding

The original encoding or encodings that results documents must have.

By default, the CategoryQuery action returns results that use the same language as the language type of the query (which you specify by using the `LanguageType` parameter for the `Query` action, or the DefaultLanguageType configuration parameter), regardless of the original encoding. To restrict the results to only those that were originally in a particular encoding, set `MatchEncoding` to a list of these encodings.

Separate multiple encodings with commas. There must be no space before or after a comma.

NOTE: If you set `MatchEncoding` you cannot also set MatchLanguageType or MatchLanguage.

Click a language to display the available encodings. Alternatively, if you know the standard encoding, you can use the second table to find the IDOL encoding name for this parameter. For each language, you can also set the `Encodings` parameters to `UTF8` or `UCS2`.

Acehnese | Galician | Luxembourgish | Slovenian
Afrikaans | Georgian | Macedonian | Somali
Albanian | German | Malagasy | Sorbian
Amharic | Gilaki | Malay | Spanish
Arabic | Greek | Malayalam | Sranan
Armenian | Greenlandic | Maltese | Sundanese
Azeri | Guarani | Manipuri | Swahili
Basque | Gujarati | Maori | Swedish
Belorussian | Haitian | Marathi | Syriac
Bengali | Hausa | Mazandarani | Tagalog
Berber | Hawaiian | Mirandese | Tahitian
Bihari | Hebrew | Mongolian | Tajik
Bikol | Hindi | Nahuatl | Tamil
Bishnupriya | Hungarian | Navajo | Tatar
Bosnian | Icelandic | Ndebele | Telugu
Breton | Igbo | Nepali | Tetum
Bulgarian | Ilokano | Newari | Thai
Burmese | Indonesian | Norwegian | Tibetan
Catalan | Italian | Oriya | Tokpisin
Cebuano | Japanese | Ossetian | Tongan
Cherokee | Javanese | Panjabi | Tsonga
Chinese Traditional | Kalmyk | Papiamentu | Tswana
Chinese Simplified | Kannada | Persian | Turkish
Chuvash | Kapampangan | Polish | Turkmen
Croatian | Kazakh | Portuguese | Ukrainian
Czech | Khmer | Pushto | Urdu
Danish | Kikongo | Quechua | Uyghur
Divehi | Kinyarwanda | Rhaeto-Romance | Uzbek
Dutch | Kirundi | Romanian | Valencian
English | Komi | Russian | Venda
Erzya | Korean | Sakha | Vietnamese
Esperanto | Kurdish | Sami | Waraywaray
Estonian | Kyrgyz | Sanskrit | Welsh
Ethiopic | Lao | Serbian | Wolof
Faroese | Lappish | Sesotho | Xhosa
Finnish | Latin | Sesotho sa Leboa | Yiddish
French | Latvian | Singhalese | Yoruba
Frisian | Lingala | Siswant | Zulu
Gaelic | Lithuanian | Slovak |

If you know the standard encoding, you can use the following table to find the IDOL encoding name for this parameter.

Encoding | Encoding parameter to use
--- | ---
`Big-5` | `CHINESETRADITIONAL`
`EUC` | `EUC`
`gb2312` | `CHINESESIMPLIFIED`
`iso-8859-2` | `EASTERNEUROPEAN_ISO`
`iso-8859-4` | `NORTHERNEUROPEAN_ISO`
`iso-8859-5` | `CYRILLIC_ISO`
`iso-8859-6` | `ARABIC_ISO`
`iso-8859-7` | `GREEK_ISO`
`iso-8859-8` | `HEBREW_ISO`
`iso-8859-9` | `TURKISH`
`iso-8859-11` | `THAI`
`JIS` | `JIS`
`KOI8-R` | `CYRILLIC_KOI8`
`KS C 5601-1987` | `KOREAN`
`KS C 5601-1992` | `KOREAN`
`Shift-JIS` | `SHIFTJIS`
`UTF-8` | `UTF8`
`windows-CP1250` | `EASTERNEUROPEAN`
`windows-CP1251` | `CYRILLIC`
`windows-CP1252` | `ASCII`
`windows-CP1253` | `GREEK`
`windows-CP1254` | `TURKISH`
`windows-CP1255` | `HEBREW`
`windows-CP1256` | `ARABIC`
`windows-CP1257` | `NORTHERNEUROPEAN`
`windows-CP1258` | `VIETNAMESE`
`windows-CP874` | `THAI`

Actions: | CategoryQuery
Type: | String
Default: |
Example: | `MatchEncoding=CHINESESIMPLIFIED,KOREAN`
See Also: | MatchLanguage MatchLanguageType

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