This page gives an overview of browser support for locale-specific encodings used for Traditional Chinese, as well as Japanese and Korean. These are 8-bit multi-byte encodings which do not conform with ISO-2022 and are not supersets of encodings that do (i.e., EUC encodings).
| Encoding | MIME charset | Browser Support | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE | Saf | FF | Op | ||
Big5 | |||||
| big5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| cn-big5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| csbig5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| x-x-big5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| CP950 | ✗ | ε | ✗ | ✗ | |
| x-mac-chinesetrad | ü | ü÷ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| big5-HKSCS | ✓ | H | H | H | |
ü) Only this gives access to MacOS-T extensions, excluding ü. | |||||
| Big 5 | ASCII | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CNS 11643-1992 Plane 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| CNS 11643-1992 Plane 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Big 5+ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Big 5E | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Extensions | Eten 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eten 2 | ✗ | ? | ✓ | ? | |
| MacOS-T | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Hong Kong | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Hong Kong DJ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ETen | |||||
| x-Chinese-Eten | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Eten | ASCII | ✓ | |||
| CNS 11643-1992 Plane 1 | ✓ | ||||
| CNS 11643-1992 Plane 2 | ✓ | ||||
Shift-JIS | |||||
| Shift_JIS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| csShiftJIS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| x-sjis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| x-shift-jis | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| Shift_JIS_X0213-2000 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Windows-31J | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| csWindows31J | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| ms_Kanji | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| CP932 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
| x-ms-cp932 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| x-mac-japanese | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Shift-JIS | ASCII | ¥ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Half-width katakana | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| JIS X 0208-1990/1997 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Shift-JIS extensions | JIS X 0213-2000 (plane 1) | ✗ | † | ✗ | ✗ |
| JIS X 0213-2004 (planes 1) | ✗ | † | ✗ | ✗ | |
| JIS X 0213-2000 (plane 2) | ✗ | † | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Vendor extensions | NEC symbols | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| IBM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| IBM (NEC positions) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MacOS-J | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
¥) Yen symbol instead of backslash. \ also gives Yen. | |||||
Johab | |||||
| johab | ✓ | x | ✓ | ✗ | |
| x-johab | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | |
x) The test page does not render at all. | |||||
| Johab | ASCII | † | ✓ | ||
| KS X 1001:1992 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Supplementary Hangul | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| 1998 additions | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| 2002 addition | ✗ | ? | ? | ||
†) ASCII/KS-Roman hybrid with won/tilde as opposed to backslash/tilde or won/overline. Furthermore, in IE, \ incorrectly gives won instead of backslash. | |||||