| Code Page Identifiers |
| The following table defines the available code page identifiers. |
| Note ANSI code pages can be different on different computers, or can be changed for a single computer, leading to data corruption. For the most consistent results, applications should use Unicode, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16, instead of a specific code page. |
| Identifier .NET Name Additional information |
| 037 IBM037 IBM EBCDIC US-Canada |
| 437 IBM437 OEM United States |
| 500 IBM500 IBM EBCDIC International |
| 708 ASMO-708 Arabic (ASMO 708) |
| 709 Arabic (ASMO-449+, BCON V4) |
| 710 Arabic - Transparent Arabic |
| 720 DOS-720 Arabic (Transparent ASMO); Arabic (DOS) |
| 737 ibm737 OEM Greek (formerly 437G); Greek (DOS) |
| 775 ibm775 OEM Baltic; Baltic (DOS) |
| 850 ibm850 OEM Multilingual Latin 1; Western European (DOS) |
| 852 ibm852 OEM Latin 2; Central European (DOS) |
| 855 IBM855 OEM Cyrillic (primarily Russian) |
| 857 ibm857 OEM Turkish; Turkish (DOS) |
| 858 IBM00858 OEM Multilingual Latin 1 + Euro symbol |
| 860 IBM860 OEM Portuguese; Portuguese (DOS) |
| 861 ibm861 OEM Icelandic; Icelandic (DOS) |
| 862 DOS-862 OEM Hebrew; Hebrew (DOS) |
| 863 IBM863 OEM French Canadian; French Canadian (DOS) |
| 864 IBM864 OEM Arabic; Arabic (864) |
| 865 IBM865 OEM Nordic; Nordic (DOS) |
| 866 cp866 OEM Russian; Cyrillic (DOS) |
| 869 ibm869 OEM Modern Greek; Greek, Modern (DOS) |
| 870 IBM870 IBM EBCDIC Multilingual/ROECE (Latin 2); IBM EBCDIC Multilingual Latin 2 |
| 874 windows-874 ANSI/OEM Thai (ISO 8859-11); Thai (Windows) |
| 875 cp875 IBM EBCDIC Greek Modern |
| 932 shift_jis ANSI/OEM Japanese; Japanese (Shift-JIS) |
| 936 gb2312 ANSI/OEM Simplified Chinese (PRC, Singapore); Chinese Simplified (GB2312) |
| 949 ks_c_5601-1987 ANSI/OEM Korean (Unified Hangul Code) |
| 950 big5 ANSI/OEM Traditional Chinese (Taiwan; Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Chinese Traditional (Big5) |
| 1026 IBM1026 IBM EBCDIC Turkish (Latin 5) |
| 1047 IBM01047 IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System |
| 1140 IBM01140 IBM EBCDIC US-Canada (037 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada-Euro) |
| 1141 IBM01141 IBM EBCDIC Germany (20273 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Germany-Euro) |
| 1142 IBM01142 IBM EBCDIC Denmark-Norway (20277 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway-Euro) |
| 1143 IBM01143 IBM EBCDIC Finland-Sweden (20278 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro) |
| 1144 IBM01144 IBM EBCDIC Italy (20280 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Italy-Euro) |
| 1145 IBM01145 IBM EBCDIC Latin America-Spain (20284 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Spain-Euro) |
| 1146 IBM01146 IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom (20285 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (UK-Euro) |
| 1147 IBM01147 IBM EBCDIC France (20297 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (France-Euro) |
| 1148 IBM01148 IBM EBCDIC International (500 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (International-Euro) |
| 1149 IBM01149 IBM EBCDIC Icelandic (20871 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic-Euro) |
| 1200 utf-16 Unicode UTF-16, little endian byte order (BMP of ISO 10646); available only to managed applications |
| 1201 unicodeFFFE Unicode UTF-16, big endian byte order; available only to managed applications |
| 1250 windows-1250 ANSI Central European; Central European (Windows) |
| 1251 windows-1251 ANSI Cyrillic; Cyrillic (Windows) |
| 1252 windows-1252 ANSI Latin 1; Western European (Windows) |
| 1253 windows-1253 ANSI Greek; Greek (Windows) |
| 1254 windows-1254 ANSI Turkish; Turkish (Windows) |
| 1255 windows-1255 ANSI Hebrew; Hebrew (Windows) |
| 1256 windows-1256 ANSI Arabic; Arabic (Windows) |
| 1257 windows-1257 ANSI Baltic; Baltic (Windows) |
| 1258 windows-1258 ANSI/OEM Vietnamese; Vietnamese (Windows) |
| 1361 Johab Korean (Johab) |
| 10000 macintosh MAC Roman; Western European (Mac) |
| 10001 x-mac-japanese Japanese (Mac) |
| 10002 x-mac-chinesetrad MAC Traditional Chinese (Big5); Chinese Traditional (Mac) |
| 10003 x-mac-korean Korean (Mac) |
| 10004 x-mac-arabic Arabic (Mac) |
| 10005 x-mac-hebrew Hebrew (Mac) |
| 10006 x-mac-greek Greek (Mac) |
| 10007 x-mac-cyrillic Cyrillic (Mac) |
| 10008 x-mac-chinesesimp MAC Simplified Chinese (GB 2312); Chinese Simplified (Mac) |
| 10010 x-mac-romanian Romanian (Mac) |
| 10017 x-mac-ukrainian Ukrainian (Mac) |
| 10021 x-mac-thai Thai (Mac) |
| 10029 x-mac-ce MAC Latin 2; Central European (Mac) |
| 10079 x-mac-icelandic Icelandic (Mac) |
| 10081 x-mac-turkish Turkish (Mac) |
| 10082 x-mac-croatian Croatian (Mac) |
| 12000 utf-32 Unicode UTF-32, little endian byte order; available only to managed applications |
| 12001 utf-32BE Unicode UTF-32, big endian byte order; available only to managed applications |
| 20000 x-Chinese_CNS CNS Taiwan; Chinese Traditional (CNS) |
| 20001 x-cp20001 TCA Taiwan |
| 20002 x_Chinese-Eten Eten Taiwan; Chinese Traditional (Eten) |
| 20003 x-cp20003 IBM5550 Taiwan |
| 20004 x-cp20004 TeleText Taiwan |
| 20005 x-cp20005 Wang Taiwan |
| 20105 x-IA5 IA5 (IRV International Alphabet No. 5, 7-bit); Western European (IA5) |
| 20106 x-IA5-German IA5 German (7-bit) |
| 20107 x-IA5-Swedish IA5 Swedish (7-bit) |
| 20108 x-IA5-Norwegian IA5 Norwegian (7-bit) |
| 20127 us-ascii US-ASCII (7-bit) |
| 20261 x-cp20261 T.61 |
| 20269 x-cp20269 ISO 6937 Non-Spacing Accent |
| 20273 IBM273 IBM EBCDIC Germany |
| 20277 IBM277 IBM EBCDIC Denmark-Norway |
| 20278 IBM278 IBM EBCDIC Finland-Sweden |
| 20280 IBM280 IBM EBCDIC Italy |
| 20284 IBM284 IBM EBCDIC Latin America-Spain |
| 20285 IBM285 IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom |
| 20290 IBM290 IBM EBCDIC Japanese Katakana Extended |
| 20297 IBM297 IBM EBCDIC France |
| 20420 IBM420 IBM EBCDIC Arabic |
| 20423 IBM423 IBM EBCDIC Greek |
| 20424 IBM424 IBM EBCDIC Hebrew |
| 20833 x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended IBM EBCDIC Korean Extended |
| 20838 IBM-Thai IBM EBCDIC Thai |
| 20866 koi8-r Russian (KOI8-R); Cyrillic (KOI8-R) |
| 20871 IBM871 IBM EBCDIC Icelandic |
| 20880 IBM880 IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic Russian |
| 20905 IBM905 IBM EBCDIC Turkish |
| 20924 IBM00924 IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System (1047 + Euro symbol) |
| 20932 EUC-JP Japanese (JIS 0208-1990 and 0212-1990) |
| 20936 x-cp20936 Simplified Chinese (GB2312); Chinese Simplified (GB2312-80) |
| 20949 x-cp20949 Korean Wansung |
| 21025 cp1025 IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic Serbian-Bulgarian |
| 21027 (deprecated) |
| 21866 koi8-u Ukrainian (KOI8-U); Cyrillic (KOI8-U) |
| 28591 iso-8859-1 ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO) |
| 28592 iso-8859-2 ISO 8859-2 Central European; Central European (ISO) |
| 28593 iso-8859-3 ISO 8859-3 Latin 3 |
| 28594 iso-8859-4 ISO 8859-4 Baltic |
| 28595 iso-8859-5 ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic |
| 28596 iso-8859-6 ISO 8859-6 Arabic |
| 28597 iso-8859-7 ISO 8859-7 Greek |
| 28598 iso-8859-8 ISO 8859-8 Hebrew; Hebrew (ISO-Visual) |
| 28599 iso-8859-9 ISO 8859-9 Turkish |
| 28603 iso-8859-13 ISO 8859-13 Estonian |
| 28605 iso-8859-15 ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 |
| 29001 x-Europa Europa 3 |
| 38598 iso-8859-8-i ISO 8859-8 Hebrew; Hebrew (ISO-Logical) |
| 50220 iso-2022-jp ISO 2022 Japanese with no halfwidth Katakana; Japanese (JIS) |
| 50221 csISO2022JP ISO 2022 Japanese with halfwidth Katakana; Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) |
| 50222 iso-2022-jp ISO 2022 Japanese JIS X 0201-1989; Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI) |
| 50225 iso-2022-kr ISO 2022 Korean |
| 50227 x-cp50227 ISO 2022 Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (ISO 2022) |
| 50229 ISO 2022 Traditional Chinese |
| 50930 EBCDIC Japanese (Katakana) Extended |
| 50931 EBCDIC US-Canada and Japanese |
| 50933 EBCDIC Korean Extended and Korean |
| 50935 EBCDIC Simplified Chinese Extended and Simplified Chinese |
| 50936 EBCDIC Simplified Chinese |
| 50937 EBCDIC US-Canada and Traditional Chinese |
| 50939 EBCDIC Japanese (Latin) Extended and Japanese |
| 51932 euc-jp EUC Japanese |
| 51936 EUC-CN EUC Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (EUC) |
| 51949 euc-kr EUC Korean |
| 51950 EUC Traditional Chinese |
| 52936 hz-gb-2312 HZ-GB2312 Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (HZ) |
| 54936 GB18030 Windows XP and later: GB18030 Simplified Chinese (4 byte); Chinese Simplified (GB18030) |
| 57002 x-iscii-de ISCII Devanagari |
| 57003 x-iscii-be ISCII Bengali |
| 57004 x-iscii-ta ISCII Tamil |
| 57005 x-iscii-te ISCII Telugu |
| 57006 x-iscii-as ISCII Assamese |
| 57007 x-iscii-or ISCII Oriya |
| 57008 x-iscii-ka ISCII Kannada |
| 57009 x-iscii-ma ISCII Malayalam |
| 57010 x-iscii-gu ISCII Gujarati |
| 57011 x-iscii-pa ISCII Punjabi |
| 65000 utf-7 Unicode (UTF-7) |
| 65001 utf-8 Unicode (UTF-8)COPY |