# XML and HTML encodings

Encodings enable you to specify what character encoding your text is in.

The IANA name is used in the encoding statement of an XML file, or charset directive in an HTML file.

The HTML and XML editors support the following encodings:

XML Encoding (IANA Name) | Description
--- | ---
BIG5 | Big5, Traditional Chinese
EUC-JP | EUC encoding, Japanese
EUC-KR | EUC encoding, Korean
GB18030 | National Standard, Chinese
ISO-2022-JP | ISO 2022, Japanese
ISO-2022-KR | ISO 2022, Korean
ISO-8859-1 | ISO Latin-1
ISO-8859-2 | Central/East European (Slavic)
ISO-8859-3 | Southern European
ISO-8859-4 | ISO 8859-4, Cyrillic
ISO-8859-5 | ISO 8859-5, Cyrillic
ISO-8859-6 | Arabic (Logical)
ISO-8859-7 | Greek
ISO-8859-8 | Hebrew (Visual) (encoding supported, but not supported by the Page Designer Design page)
ISO-8859-9 | Turkish
SHIFT_JIS | Shift-JIS, Japanese
TIS-620 | TISI, Thai
US-ASCII | US ASCII
UTF-8 | ISO 10646/Unicode, one-byte encoding
UTF-16 | ISO 10646/Unicode, two-byte encoding
UTF-16BE | Unicode BigEndian
UTF-16LE | Unicode LittleEndian
WINDOWS-31J | Japanese, Windows-31J
WINDOWS-1255 | Hebrew
WINDOWS-1256 | Arabic