File Content Extraction 25.4
Filter SDK C Programming Guide

# Coded Character Sets

This section lists the character sets you can use as your target character set.

The character sets are enumerated in `kvcharset.h` and defined in the Filter class.

DEPRECATED: Target character sets other than UTF-8 and UTF-16 are deprecated in File Content Extraction version 24.4 and later. OpenText recommends that you only use the widely supported UTF-8 and UTF-16 formats. Other character sets are still available, but might be removed in future.

Coded Character Set | Description | Can be set as target charset?
--- | --- | ---
KVCS_UNKNOWN | Unknown character set | N
KVCS_SJIS | Japanese (uses multibyte encoding), cp932 | Deprecated
KVCS_GB | Simplified Chinese (China, Singapore, Malaysia) cp936 | Deprecated
KVCS_BIG5 | Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macaw) cp950 | Deprecated
KVCS_KSC | Korean, cp949 | Deprecated
KVCS_1250 | Windows Latin 2 (Central Europe) | Deprecated
KVCS_1251 | Windows Cyrillic (Slavic) | Deprecated
KVCS_1252 | Windows Latin 1 (ANSI) | Deprecated
KVCS_1253 | Windows Greek | Deprecated
KVCS_1254 | Windows Latin 5 (Turkish) | Deprecated
KVCS_1255 | Windows Hebrew | Deprecated
KVCS_1256 | Windows Arabic | Deprecated
KVCS_1257 | Windows Baltic Rim | Deprecated
KVCS_1258 | Windows Vietnamese | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_1 | ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 (Western Europe, Latin America) | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_2 | ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 (Central Eastern Europe) | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_3 | ISO 8859-3 Latin 3 (S.E. Europe) | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_4 | ISO 8859-4 Latin 4 (Scandinavia/Baltic) | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_5 | ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_6 | ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_7 | ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_8 | ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_9 | ISO 8859-9 Latin/Turkish | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_14 | ISO 8859-14 | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_15 | ISO 8859-15 | Deprecated
KVCS_437 | DOS Latin US | Deprecated
KVCS_737 | DOS Greek | Deprecated
KVCS_775 | DOS Baltic Rim | Deprecated
KVCS_850 | DOS Latin 1 | Deprecated
KVCS_851 | DOS Greek | Deprecated
KVCS_852 | DOS Latin 2 | Deprecated
KVCS_855 | DOS Cyrillic | Deprecated
KVCS_857 | DOS Turkish | Deprecated
KVCS_860 | DOS Portuguese | Deprecated
KVCS_861 | DOS Icelandic | Deprecated
KVCS_862 | DOS Hebrew | Deprecated
KVCS_863 | DOS Canadian French | Deprecated
KVCS_864 | DOS Arabic | Deprecated
KVCS_865 | DOS Nordic | Deprecated
KVCS_866 | DOS Cyrillic Russian | Deprecated
KVCS_869 | DOS Greek 2 | Deprecated
KVCS_874 | Thai | Deprecated
KVCS_PDFMACDOC | PDF MAC DOC | N
KVCS_PDFWINDOC | PDF WIN DOC | N
KVCS_STDENC | Adobe Standard Encoding | N
KVCS_PDFDOC | Adobe standard PDF character set | N
KVCS_037 | EBCDIC code page 037 | Deprecated
KVCS_1026 | EBCDIC code page 1026 | Deprecated
KVCS_500 | EBCDIC code page 500 | Deprecated
KVCS_875 | EBCDIC code page 875 | Deprecated
KVCS_LMBCS | Lotus multibyte character set Group 1 and Group 2 | N
KVCS_UNICODE | Unicode, UCS-2 | Deprecated
KVCS_UTF16 | 16-bit Unicode transformation format in little-endian byte order | Y
KVCS_UTF8 | 8-bit Unicode transformation format | Y
KVCS_UTF7 | 7-bit Unicode transformation format | Deprecated
KVCS_2022_JP | ISO 2022-JP, Japanese mail and news safe encoding (JIS-7) | N
KVCS_2022_CN | ISO 2022-CN, Chinese mail and news safe encoding | N
KVCS_2022_KR | ISO 2022-KR, Korean mail and news safe encoding | N
KVCS_WP6X | Word Perfect 6.x and higher character mapping | N
KVCS_10000 | Western European (Macintosh) | Deprecated
KVCS_KSC5601 | Unified Hangul | Deprecated
KVCS_GB2312 | Simplified Chinese (China, Singapore, Hong Kong) | Deprecated
KVCS_GB12345 | Traditional Chinese (China) - analogue of GB2312 | Deprecated
KVCS_CNS11643 | Traditional Chinese - Taiwan. Supplement to Big5 | Deprecated
KVCS_JIS0201 | Japanese - contains ASCII character set (JIS-Roman) | N
KVCS_JIS0212 | Japanese. Supplement to JIS0208. | Deprecated
KVCS_EUC_JP | Japanese Extended UNIX Code | Deprecated
KVCS_EUC_GB | Simplified Chinese Extended UNIX Code | Deprecated
KVCS_EUC_BIG5 | Traditional Chinese Extended UNIX Code | N
KVCS_EUC_KSC | Korean Extended UNIX Code | N
KVCS_424 | EBCDIC Hebrew | N
KVCS_856 | PC Hebrew (old) | N
KVCS_1006 | IBM AIX Pakistan (Urdu) | N
KVCS_KOI8R | Cyrillic (Russian) | Deprecated
KVCS_PDF_JAPAN1 | Adobe-Japan1-2 character collection | N
KVCS_PDF_KOREA1 | Adobe-Korea1-0 character collection | N
KVCS_PDF_GB1 | Adobe-GB1-3 character collection | N
KVCS_PDF_CNS1 | Adobe-CNS1-2 character collection | N
KVCS_2022_JP_8 | ISO 2022-JP, Japanese mail and news safe encoding (JIS8) | N
KVCS_720 | Arabic DOS-720 | Deprecated
KVCS_VISCII | Vietnamese VISCII | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_10 | ISO 8859-10 (Latin 6 Nordic) | Deprecated 1 The character set cannot be forced as output in Export SDK and Viewing SDK because the character set is not supported by the major browsers.
KVCS_8859_13 | ISO 8859-13 (Latin 7 Baltic) | Deprecated 1
KVCS_57002 | ISCII Devanagari (x-iscii-de) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57003 | ISCII Bengali (x-iscii-be) | Deprecated 1
KVCS_57004 | ISCII Tamil (x-iscii-ta) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57005 | ISCII Telugu (x-iscii-te) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57006 | ISCII Assamese (x-iscii-as) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57007 | ISCII Oriya (x-iscii-or) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57008 | ISCII Kannada (x-iscii-ka) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57009 | ISCII Malayalam (x-iscii-ma) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57010 | ISCII Gujarathi (x-iscii-gu) | Deprecated1
KVCS_57011 | ISCII Panjabi (x-iscii-pa) | Deprecated 1
KVCS_GB18030b2 | Reserved for internal use | n/a
KVCS_GB18030 | GB18030 (Chinese 4-byte character set) | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_11 | ISO 8859-11 (Thai) | Deprecated
KVCS_8859_16 | ISO 8859-16 (Latin-10 South-Eastern Europe) | Deprecated
KVCS_ARABICMAC | Arabic Mac (x-mac-arabic) | Deprecated
KVCS_KOI8U | Cyrillic (KOI8U Ukrainian) | Deprecated
KVCS_HZGB2312 | The 7-bit representation of GB 2312 / RFC 1842 | n/a
KVCS_UTF32 | 32-bit Unicode transformation format | Deprecated

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Product: File Content Extraction 25.4

Topic Title: Coded Character Sets