Preferred MIME Names

Of the 235 charsets registered at the time of this writing, only 20 include “preferred MIME names”—common charsets used by email and web applications. These are:

Big5

EUC-JP

EUC-KR

GB2312

ISO-2022-JP

ISO-2022-JP-2

ISO-2022-KR

ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-3

ISO-8859-4

ISO-8859-5

ISO-8859-6

ISO-8859-7

ISO-8859-8

ISO-8859-9

ISO-8859-10

KOI8-R

Shift-JIS

US-ASCII

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