Below is a table of well known character set definitions. These character sets may be used when creating email messages that contain non US-ASCII data.
Group
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Languages
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Character set
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Western European
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French (fr), Spanish (es), Catalan (ca), Basque (eu), Portuguese (pt), Italian (it), Albanian (sq), Rhaeto-Romanic (rm), Dutch (nl), German (de), Danish (da), Swedish (sv), Norwegian (no), Finnish (fi), Faroese (fo), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga), Scottish (gd), and English (en)
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iso-8859-1
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Central and Eastern Europe
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Czech (cs), Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Croatian (hr), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Sorbian
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iso-8859-2
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Baltic
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Latvian (lv, Lettish) and Lithuanian (lt), Greenlandic (kl) and Lappish
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iso-8859-4
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Chinese
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Chinese
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hz-gb-2312
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Cyrillic
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Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be), Macedonian (mk), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr)
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koi8-r
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Japanese
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Japanese
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iso-2022-jp
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See also
Setting the message body using non US-ASCII data
Setting the message headers using non US-ASCII data
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