It can be changed in the following ways
The following character encoding are available
| character encoding | additional settings - "Encoding" tab | command line, ini file |
|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | UTF-8 | UTF-8 |
| ISO8859-1 | ISO8859-1 Latin-1 Western European | ISO8859-1 |
| ISO8859-2 | ISO8859-2 Latin-2 Central European | ISO8859-2 |
| ISO8859-3 | ISO8859-3 Latin-3 South European | ISO8859-3 |
| ISO8859-4 | ISO8859-4 Latin-4 North European | ISO8859-4 |
| ISO8859-5 | ISO8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic | ISO8859-5 |
| ISO8859-6 | ISO8859-6 Latin/Arabic | ISO8859-6 |
| ISO8859-7 | ISO8859-7 Latin/Greek | ISO8859-7 |
| ISO8859-8 | ISO8859-8 Latin/Hebrew | ISO8859-8 |
| ISO8859-9 | ISO8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish | ISO8859-9 |
| ISO8859-10 | ISO8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic | ISO8859-10 |
| ISO8859-11 | ISO8859-11 Latin/Thai | ISO8859-11 |
| ISO8859-13 | ISO8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim | ISO8859-13 |
| ISO8859-14 | ISO8859-14 Latin-8 Celtic | ISO8859-14 |
| ISO8859-15 | ISO8859-15 Latin-9 | ISO8859-15 |
| ISO8859-16 | ISO8859-16 Latin-10 South-Eastern European | ISO8859-16 |
| Shift_JIS | SJIS (CP932) | SJIS |
| EUC | - | EUC-JP |
| EUC | EUC | EUC |
| JIS | JIS | JIS |
| CP1251 | Windows-1251 (CP1251) | Windows-1251 |
| KOI8 | KOI8-R | KOI8-R |
| CP866 | CP866 | CP866 |
| KoreanCP949 | KS5601 (CP949) | KS5601 |
| GB2312 | GB2312 (CP936) | GB2312 |
| Big5 | Big5 (CP950) | BIG5 |
| CP437 | CP437 Latin (US) | CP437 |
| CP737 | CP737 Greek (A) | CP737 |
| CP775 | CP775 BaltRim | CP775 |
| CP850 | CP850 Latin (A) | CP850 |
| CP852 | CP852 Latin (B) | CP852 |
| CP855 | CP855 Cyrillic (A) | CP855 |
| CP857 | CP857 Turkish | CP857 |
| CP860 | CP860 Portuguese | CP860 |
| CP861 | CP861 Icelandic | CP861 |
| CP862 | CP862 Hebrew | CP862 |
| CP863 | CP863 Canada F | CP863 |
| CP864 | CP864 Arabic | CP864 |
| CP865 | CP865 Nordic | CP865 |
| CP866 | CP866 Cyrillic Russian | CP866 |
| CP869 | CP869 Greek (B) | CP869 |
| CP874 | CP874 Thai | CP874 |
| CP1250 | CP1250 Central European | CP1250 |
| CP1251 | CP1251 Cyrillic | CP1251 |
| CP1252 | CP1252 Latin 1 | CP1252 |
| CP1253 | CP1253 Greek | CP1253 |
| CP1254 | CP1254 Turkish | CP1254 |
| CP1255 | CP1255 Hebrew | CP1255 |
| CP1256 | CP1256 Arabic | CP1256 |
| CP1257 | CP1257 Baltic | CP1257 |
| CP1258 | CP1258 Vietnamese | CP1258 |