Microsoft KB Archive/287946

= OL2002: Available Values for the &quot;InternetCodePage&quot; Property =

Article ID: 287946

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q287946



SUMMARY
This article provides a list of values you can use with the InternetCodePage property in the Outlook object model.



MORE INFORMATION
The following table lists the values that are supported by the InternetCodePage property.

Name                             Character Set   Code Page --- Arabic (ISO)                     iso-8859-6      28596 Arabic (Windows)                 windows-1256    1256 Baltic (ISO)                     iso-8859-4      28594 Baltic (Windows)                 windows-1257    1257 Central European (ISO)           iso-8859-2      28592 Central European (Windows)       windows-1250    1250 Chinese Simplified (GB2312)      gb2312          936 Chinese Simplified (HZ)          hz-gb-2312      52936 Chinese Traditional (Big5)       big5            950 Cyrillic (ISO)                   iso-8859-5      28595 Cyrillic (KOI8-R)                koi8-r          20866 Cyrillic (KOI8-U)                koi8-u          21866 Cyrillic (Windows)               windows-1251    1251 Greek (ISO)                      iso-8859-7      28597 Greek (Windows)                  windows-1253    1253 Hebrew (ISO-Logical)             iso-8859-8-i    38598 Hebrew (Windows)                 windows-1255    1255 Japanese (EUC)                   euc-jp          51932 Japanese (JIS)                   iso-2022-jp     50220 Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) csISO2022JP     50221 Japanese (Shift-JIS)             iso-2022-jp     932 Korean                           ks_c_5601-1987  949 Korean (EUC)                     euc-kr          51949 Latin 3 (ISO)                    iso-8859-3      28593 Latin 9 (ISO)                    iso-8859-15     28605 Thai (Windows)                   windows-874     874 Turkish (ISO)                    iso-8859-9      28599 Turkish (Windows)                windows-1254    1254 Unicode (UTF-7)                  utf-7           65000 Unicode (UTF-8)                  utf-8           65001 US-ASCII                         us-ascii        20127 Vietnamese (Windows)             windows-1258    1258 Western European (ISO)           iso-8859-1      28591 Western European (Windows)       Windows-1252    1252

IMPORTANT: Outlook supports sending and receiving mail in these code pages only if the operating system has the appropriate national language support (NLS) files for the code page conversion that is installed.

Default Outlook Code Pages
This section provides information about the code pages Microsoft recommends that you use for the best compatibility with older mail systems. Outlook uses these code pages as default outbound encodings. To see the default encoding for your particular configuration:
 * 1) In Outlook, click Options on the Tools menu.
 * 2) Click the Mail Format tab.
 * 3) Click International Options.
 * 4) View the setting for Preferred encoding for outgoing messages.

The following table lists the code pages Microsoft recommends that you use for the best compatibility with older mail systems.

Name                        Character Set   Code Page -- US-ASCII                    us-ascii        20127 Western European (ISO)      iso-8859-1      28591 Central European (ISO)      iso-8859-2      28592 Cyrillic (KOI8-R)           koi8-r          20866 Cyrillic (Windows)          windows-1251    1251 Turkish (ISO)               iso-8859-9      28599 Greek (ISO)                 iso-8859-7      28597 Baltic (ISO)                iso-8859-4      28594 Hebrew (Windows)            windows-1255    1255 Arabic (Windows)            windows-1256    1256 Thai (Windows)              windows-874     874 Vietnamese (Windows)        windows-1258    1258 Japanese (JIS)              iso-2022-jp     50220 Chinese Simplified (GB2312) gb2312          936 Korean                      ks_c_5601-1987  949 Chinese Traditional (Big5)  big5            950 Unicode (UTF-8)             utf-8           65001

