Productivity activities

Last updated Jan 16, 2026

Supported character encoding

The following activities feature the Encoding property:

Configuring the Encoding property

To configure this property for the above activities, use the value from the Name field in the table below that corresponds with the character encoding type you want to use.

Code page	Name	Display name	Windows - Legacy compatibility (NET 4.6.1)	Windows / Cross-platform compatibility (.NET 6)
37	IBM037	IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada)	✅	✅
437	IBM437	OEM United States	✅	✅
500	IBM500	IBM EBCDIC (International)	✅	✅
708	ASMO-708	Arabic (ASMO 708)	✅	✅
720	DOS-720	Arabic (DOS)	✅	✅
737	ibm737	Greek (DOS)	✅	✅
775	ibm775	Baltic (DOS)	✅	✅
852	ibm852	Central European (DOS)	✅	✅
855	IBM855	OEM Cyrillic	✅	✅
857	ibm857	Turkish (DOS)	✅	✅
858	IBM00858	OEM Multilingual Latin I	✅	✅
860	IBM860	Portuguese (DOS)	✅	✅
861	ibm861	Icelandic (DOS)	✅	✅
862	DOS-862	Hebrew (DOS)	✅	✅
863	IBM863	French Canadian (DOS)	✅	✅
864	IBM864	Arabic (864)	✅	✅
865	IBM865	Nordic (DOS)	✅	✅
866	cp866	Cyrillic (DOS)	✅	✅
869	ibm869	Greek, Modern (DOS)	✅	✅
870	IBM870	IBM EBCDIC (Multilingual Latin-2)	✅	✅
874	windows-874	Thai (Windows)	✅	✅
875	cp875	IBM EBCDIC (Greek Modern)	✅	✅
932	shift_jis	Japanese (Shift-JIS)	✅	✅
936	gb2312	Chinese Simplified (GB2312)	✅	✅
949	ks_c_5601-1987	Korean	✅	✅
950	big5	Chinese Traditional (Big5)	✅	✅
1026	IBM1026	IBM EBCDIC (Turkish Latin-5)	✅	✅
1047	IBM01047	IBM Latin-1	✅	✅
1140	IBM01140	IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada-Euro)	✅	✅
1141	IBM01141	IBM EBCDIC (Germany-Euro)	✅	✅
1142	IBM01142	IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway-Euro)	✅	✅
1143	IBM01143	IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro)	✅	✅
1144	IBM01144	IBM EBCDIC (Italy-Euro)	✅	✅
1145	IBM01145	IBM EBCDIC (Spain-Euro)	✅	✅
1146	IBM01146	IBM EBCDIC (UK-Euro)	✅	✅
1147	IBM01147	IBM EBCDIC (France-Euro)	✅	✅
1148	IBM01148	IBM EBCDIC (International-Euro)	✅	✅
1149	IBM01149	IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic-Euro)	✅	✅
1200	utf-16	Unicode	✅	✅
1201	unicodeFFFE	Unicode (Big endian)	✅	✅
1250	windows-1250	Central European (Windows)	✅	✅
1251	windows-1251	Cyrillic (Windows)	✅	✅
1252	Windows-1252	Western European (Windows)	✅	✅
1253	windows-1253	Greek (Windows)	✅	✅
1254	windows-1254	Turkish (Windows)	✅	✅
1255	windows-1255	Hebrew (Windows)	✅	✅
1256	windows-1256	Arabic (Windows)	✅	✅
1257	windows-1257	Baltic (Windows)	✅	✅
1258	windows-1258	Vietnamese (Windows)	✅	✅
1361	Johab	Korean (Johab)	✅	✅
10000	macintosh	Western European (Mac)	✅	✅
10001	x-mac-japanese	Japanese (Mac)	✅	✅
10002	x-mac-chinesetrad	Chinese Traditional (Mac)	✅	✅
10003	x-mac-korean	Korean (Mac)	✅	❌
10004	x-mac-arabic	Arabic (Mac)	✅	✅
10005	x-mac-hebrew	Hebrew (Mac)	✅	✅
10006	x-mac-greek	Greek (Mac)	✅	✅
10007	x-mac-cyrillic	Cyrillic (Mac)	✅	✅
10008	x-mac-chinesesimp	Chinese Simplified (Mac)	✅	❌
10010	x-mac-romanian	Romanian (Mac)	✅	✅
10017	x-mac-ukrainian	Ukrainian (Mac)	✅	✅
10021	x-mac-thai	Thai (Mac)	✅	✅
10029	x-mac-ce	Central European (Mac)	✅	✅
10079	x-mac-icelandic	Icelandic (Mac)	✅	✅
10081	x-mac-turkish	Turkish (Mac)	✅	✅
10082	x-mac-croatian	Croatian (Mac)	✅	✅
12000	utf-32	Unicode (UTF-32)	✅	✅
12001	utf-32BE	Unicode (UTF-32 Big endian)	✅	✅
20000	x-Chinese-CNS	Chinese Traditional (CNS)	✅	✅
20001	x-cp20001	TCA Taiwan	✅	✅
20002	x-Chinese-Eten	Chinese Traditional (Eten)	✅	✅
20003	x-cp20003	IBM5550 Taiwan	✅	✅
20004	x-cp20004	TeleText Taiwan	✅	✅
20005	x-cp20005	Wang Taiwan	✅	✅
20105	x-IA5	Western European (IA5)	✅	✅
20106	x-IA5-German	German (IA5)	✅	✅
20107	x-IA5-Swedish	Swedish (IA5)	✅	✅
20108	x-IA5-Norwegian	Norwegian (IA5)	✅	✅
20127	us-ascii	US-ASCII	✅	✅
20261	x-cp20261	T.61	✅	✅
20269	x-cp20269	ISO-6937	✅	✅
20273	IBM273	IBM EBCDIC (Germany)	✅	✅
20277	IBM277	IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway)	✅	✅
20278	IBM278	IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden)	✅	✅
20280	IBM280	IBM EBCDIC (Italy)	✅	✅
20284	IBM284	IBM EBCDIC (Spain)	✅	✅
20285	IBM285	IBM EBCDIC (UK)	✅	✅
20290	IBM290	IBM EBCDIC (Japanese katakana)	✅	✅
20297	IBM297	IBM EBCDIC (France)	✅	✅
20420	IBM420	IBM EBCDIC (Arabic)	✅	✅
20423	IBM423	IBM EBCDIC (Greek)	✅	✅
20424	IBM424	IBM EBCDIC (Hebrew)	✅	✅
20833	x-EBCDIC-KoreanExtended	IBM EBCDIC (Korean Extended)	✅	✅
20838	IBM-Thai	IBM EBCDIC (Thai)	✅	✅
20866	koi8-r	Cyrillic (KOI8-R)	✅	✅
20871	IBM871	IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic)	✅	✅
20880	IBM880	IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian)	✅	✅
20905	IBM905	IBM EBCDIC (Turkish)	✅	✅
20924	IBM00924	IBM Latin-1	✅	✅
20932	EUC-JP	Japanese (JIS 0208-1990 and 0212-1990)	✅	✅
20936	x-cp20936	Chinese Simplified (GB2312-80)	✅	✅
20949	x-cp20949	Korean Wansung	✅	✅
21025	cp1025	IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Serbian-Bulgarian)	✅	✅
21866	koi8-u	Cyrillic (KOI8-U)	✅	✅
28591	iso-8859-1	Western European (ISO)	✅	✅
28592	iso-8859-2	Central European (ISO)	✅	✅
28593	iso-8859-3	Latin 3 (ISO)	✅	✅
28594	iso-8859-4	Baltic (ISO)	✅	✅
28595	iso-8859-5	Cyrillic (ISO)	✅	✅
28596	iso-8859-6	Arabic (ISO)	✅	✅
28597	iso-8859-7	Greek (ISO)	✅	✅
28598	iso-8859-8	Hebrew (ISO-Visual)	✅	✅
28599	iso-8859-9	Turkish (ISO)	✅	✅
28603	iso-8859-13	Estonian (ISO)	✅	✅
28605	iso-8859-15	Latin 9 (ISO)	✅	✅
29001	x-Europa	Europa	✅	✅
38598	iso-8859-8-i	Hebrew (ISO-Logical)	✅	❌
50220	iso-2022-jp	Japanese (JIS)	✅	❌
50221	csISO2022JP	Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)	✅	❌
50222	iso-2022-jp	Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI)	✅	✅
50225	iso-2022-kr	Korean (ISO)	✅	❌
50227	x-cp50227	Chinese Simplified (ISO-2022)	✅	❌
51932	euc-jp	Japanese (EUC)	✅	✅
51936	EUC-CN	Chinese Simplified (EUC)	✅	❌
51949	euc-kr	Korean (EUC)	✅	❌
52936	hz-gb-2312	Chinese Simplified (HZ)	✅	❌
54936	GB18030	Chinese Simplified (GB18030)	✅	❌
57002	x-iscii-de	ISCII Devanagari	✅	❌
57003	x-iscii-be	ISCII Bengali	✅	❌
57004	x-iscii-ta	ISCII Tamil	✅	❌
57005	x-iscii-te	ISCII Telugu	✅	❌
57006	x-iscii-as	ISCII Assamese	✅	❌
57007	x-iscii-or	ISCII Oriya	✅	❌
57008	x-iscii-ka	ISCII Kannada	✅	❌
57009	x-iscii-ma	ISCII Malayalam	✅	❌
57010	x-iscii-gu	ISCII Gujarati	✅	❌
57011	x-iscii-pa	ISCII Punjabi	✅	❌
65000	utf-7	Unicode (UTF-7)	✅	❌
65001	utf-8	Unicode (UTF-8)	✅	✅