Comparison of character set tables

The sources of the conversion tables.

The format of the conversion tables.

The tools that are used to create and compare the conversion tables.

Here are the results of the comparisons, classified by family or by script/language.

• ASCII
• ISO-8859-*
• Cyrillic
• Windows Codepages
• Macintosh encodings
• RFC 1345
• Other DOS Codepages
• Other HP encodings
• NeXTstep
• Atari ST
• Japanese
• Chinese
• Korean
• Armenian
• Georgian
• Persian
• Thai
• Laotian
• Vietnamese
• Nordic
• Hebrew
• Arabic
• Indic
• Tamil
• Braille character sets

Stateful encodings like ISO-2022-* or UTF-7 are not listed here, because their behaviour cannot be put in a simple conversion table.

Unicode encoding forms like UTF-8 or UTF-16 are not listed here, because their converters are entirely algorithmic.

Last modified: 3 October 2016.