The following table contains information about the character sets supported by IIS, and it includes the following information.
- Charset Friendly Name. Name used to refer to the character set.
- Preferred Charset Label. Most common identifier used to set character sets in Internet Explorer. For example, in the previous code sample the Charset Label is windows-1251. These identifiers are used for outbound data.
- Aliases. Other identifiers that can be used to set character sets. These identifiers are used for inbound data.
- IE Ver. Versions of Internet Explorer that support the listed character sets.
- Min OS. Minimum operating system that supports the listed character sets.
- Code Page. Code page that supports the listed character sets.