Encoding Property
Description
Gets/sets the character set used when working with XML data.
Property Type
Read-write property
Syntax (Visual Basic)
Public Property Encoding() As String
Remarks
The Encoding property is provided for Unicode support when working with XML files.
The encoding information will appear in the first line of the XML file or XML string:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Below is a table containing some of the encoding schemes available:
| Charset Name | Preferred Charset Label Id |
|---|---|
| Arabic (ASMO 708) | ASMO-708 |
| Arabic (DOS) | DOS-720 |
| Arabic (ISO) | iso-8859-6 |
| Arabic (Mac) | x-mac-arabic |
| Arabic (Windows) | windows-1256 |
| Baltic (DOS) | ibm775 |
| Baltic (ISO) | iso-8859-4 |
| Baltic (Windows) | windows-1257 |
| Central European (DOS) | ibm852 |
| Central European (ISO) | iso-8859-2 |
| Central European (Mac) | x-mac-ce |
| Central European (Windows) | windows-1250 |
| Chinese Simplified (EUC) | EUC-CN |
| Chinese Simplified (GB2312) | gb2312 |
| Chinese Simplified (HZ) | hz-gb-2312 |
| Chinese Simplified (Mac) | x-mac-chinesesimp |
| Chinese Traditional (Big5) | big5 |
| Chinese Traditional (CNS) | x-Chinese-CNS |
| Chinese Traditional (Eten) | x-Chinese-Eten |
| Chinese Traditional (Mac) | x-mac-chinesetrad |
| Cyrillic (DOS) | cp866 |
| Cyrillic (ISO) | iso-8859-5 |
| Cyrillic (KOI8-R) | koi8-r |
| Cyrillic (KOI8-U) | koi8-u |
| Cyrillic (Mac) | x-mac-cyrillic |
| Cyrillic (Windows) | windows-1251 |
| Europa | x-Europa |
| German (IA5) | x-IA5-German |
| Greek (DOS) | ibm737 |
| Greek (ISO) | iso-8859-7 |
| Greek (Mac) | x-mac-greek |
| Greek (Windows) | windows-1253 |
| Greek, Modern (DOS) | ibm869 |
| Hebrew (DOS) | DOS-862 |
| Hebrew (ISO-Logical) | iso-8859-8-i |
| Hebrew (ISO-Visual) | iso-8859-8 |
| Hebrew (Mac) | x-mac-hebrew |
| Hebrew (Windows) | windows-1255 |
| IBM EBCDIC (Arabic) | x-EBCDIC-Arabic |
| IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) | x-EBCDIC-CyrillicRussian |
| IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Serbian-Bulgarian) | x-EBCDIC-CyrillicSerbianBulgarian |
| IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway) | x-EBCDIC-DenmarkNorway |
| IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway-Euro) | x-ebcdic-denmarknorway-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden) | x-EBCDIC-FinlandSweden |
| IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro) | x-ebcdic-finlandsweden-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (France-Euro) | x-ebcdic-france-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (Germany) | x-EBCDIC-Germany |
| IBM EBCDIC (Germany-Euro) | x-ebcdic-germany-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (Greek Modern) | x-EBCDIC-GreekModern |
| IBM EBCDIC (Greek) | x-EBCDIC-Greek |
| IBM EBCDIC (Hebrew) | x-EBCDIC-Hebrew |
| IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic) | x-EBCDIC-Icelandic |
| IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic-Euro) | x-ebcdic-icelandic-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (International-Euro) | x-ebcdic-international-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (Italy) | x-EBCDIC-Italy |
| IBM EBCDIC (Italy-Euro) | x-ebcdic-italy-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (Japanese and Japanese Katakana) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseAndKana |
| IBM EBCDIC (Japanese and Japanese-Latin) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseAndJapaneseLatin |
| IBM EBCDIC (Japanese and US-Canada) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseAndUSCanada |
| IBM EBCDIC (Japanese katakana) | x-EBCDIC-JapaneseKatakana |
| IBM EBCDIC (Korean and Korean Extended) | x-EBCDIC-KoreanAndKoreanExtended |
| IBM EBCDIC (Korean Extended) | x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended |
| IBM EBCDIC (Multilingual Latin-2) | CP870 |
| IBM EBCDIC (Simplified Chinese) | x-EBCDIC-SimplifiedChinese |
| IBM EBCDIC (Spain) | X-EBCDIC-Spain |
| IBM EBCDIC (Spain-Euro) | x-ebcdic-spain-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (Thai) | x-EBCDIC-Thai |
| IBM EBCDIC (Traditional Chinese) | x-EBCDIC-TraditionalChinese |
| IBM EBCDIC (Turkish Latin-5) | CP1026 |
| IBM EBCDIC (Turkish) | x-EBCDIC-Turkish |
| IBM EBCDIC (UK) | x-EBCDIC-UK |
| IBM EBCDIC (UK-Euro) | x-ebcdic-uk-euro |
| IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada) | ebcdic-cp-us |
| IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada-Euro) | x-ebcdic-cp-us-euro |
| Icelandic (DOS) | ibm861 |
| Icelandic (Mac) | x-mac-icelandic |
| ISCII Assamese | x-iscii-as |
| ISCII Bengali | x-iscii-be |
| ISCII Devanagari | x-iscii-de |
| ISCII Gujarathi | x-iscii-gu |
| ISCII Kannada | x-iscii-ka |
| ISCII Malayalam | x-iscii-ma |
| ISCII Oriya | x-iscii-or |
| ISCII Panjabi | x-iscii-pa |
| ISCII Tamil | x-iscii-ta |
| ISCII Telugu | x-iscii-te |
| Japanese (EUC) | euc-jp |
| Japanese (JIS) | iso-2022-jp |
| Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI) | iso-2022-jp |
| Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) | csISO2022JP |
| Japanese (Mac) | x-mac-japanese |
| Japanese (Shift-JIS) | shift_jis |
| Korean | ks_c_5601-1987 |
| Korean (EUC) | euc-kr |
| Korean (ISO) | iso-2022-kr |
| Korean (Johab) | Johab |
| Korean (Mac) | x-mac-korean |
| Latin 3 (ISO) | iso-8859-3 |
| Latin 9 (ISO) | iso-8859-15 |
| Norwegian (IA5) | x-IA5-Norwegian |
| OEM United States | IBM437 |
| Swedish (IA5) | x-IA5-Swedish |
| Thai (Windows) | windows-874 |
| Turkish (DOS) | ibm857 |
| Turkish (ISO) | iso-8859-9 |
| Turkish (Mac) | x-mac-turkish |
| Turkish (Windows) | windows-1254 |
| Unicode | unicode |
| Unicode (Big-Endian) | unicodeFFFE |
| Unicode (UTF-7) | utf-7 |
| Unicode (UTF-8) | utf-8 |
| US-ASCII | us-ascii |
| Vietnamese (Windows) | windows-1258 |
| Western European (DOS) | ibm850 |
| Western European (IA5) | x-IA5 |
| Western European (ISO) | iso-8859-1 |
| Western European (Mac) | macintosh |
| Western European (Windows) | Windows-1252 |
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