Content Component 26.1
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# Supported Encodings

The table below lists the encodings that the Content component supports for text processing and indexing. Not all encodings are valid for all supported languages. For a list of the most common supported encodings for each language, see Supported Languages and Common Encodings.

Supported Encodings

Content component name | XML name | ISO name
--- | --- | ---
ARABIC | Windows-1256 | CP_1256
ARABIC_ISO | ISO-8859-6 | ISO8859-6
ARABIC_MAC | x-mac-arabic | CP_10004
ASCII | ISO-8859-1 | CP_ACP
ASCII_IBM | IBM850 | CP_850
CHINESESIMPLIFIED | GBK | CP_936
CHINESETRADITIONAL | Big5 | CP_950
CYRILLIC | Windows-1251 | CP_1251
CYRILLIC_DOS | IBM866 | CP_866
CYRILLIC_ISO | ISO-8859-5 | ISO8859-5
CYRILLIC_KOI8 | KOI8-R | CP_21866
EASTERNEUROPEAN | Windows-1250 | CP_1250
EASTERNEUROPEAN_ISO | ISO-8859-2 | ISO8859-2
EUC | EUC-JP |
GREEK | Windows-1253 | CP_1253
GREEK_ISO | ISO-8859-7 | ISO8859-7
HEBREW | Windows-1255 | CP_1255
HEBREW_ISO | ISO-8859-8 | ISO8859-8
JIS | JIS_Encoding |
KOREAN | KS_C_5601-1987 | CP_949
LATIN3 | ISO-8859-3 | ISO8859-3
LATIN5 | ISO-8859-9 | ISO8859-9
LATIN6 | ISO-8859-14 | ISO8859-14
LATIN7 | ISO-8859-13 | ISO8859-13
LATIN9 | ISO-8859-15 | ISO8859-15
NORTHERNEUROPEAN | Windows-1257 | CP_1257
NORTHERNEUROPEAN_ISO | ISO-8859-4 | ISO8859-4
SHIFTJIS | Shift_JIS | CP_932
THAI | TIS-620 | CP_874
TURKISH | Windows-1254 | CP_1254
UCS2 | ISO-10646-UCS-2 | ISO-10646
UTF8 | UTF-8 | CP_UTF8
VIETNAMESE | Windows-1258 | CP_1258
WESTERNEUROPEAN | Windows-1252 | CP_1252

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Content Component 26.1

Topic Title: Supported Encodings