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13.2.1 Available External Formats

The available external formats are listed below in Table 13.1. The first column gives the external format, and the second column gives a list of aliases that can be used for this format. The set of aliases can be changed by changing the aliases file.

For all of these formats, if an illegal sequence is encountered, no error or warning is signaled. Instead, the offending sequence is silently replaced with the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD).

FormatAliasesDescription
:iso8859-1:latin1 :latin-1 :iso-8859-1ISO8859-1
:iso8859-2:latin2 :latin-2 :iso-8859-2ISO8859-2
:iso8859-3:latin3 :latin-3 :iso-8859-3ISO8859-3
:iso8859-4:latin4 :latin-4 :iso-8859-4ISO8859-4
:iso8859-5:cyrillic :iso-8859-5ISO8859-5
:iso8859-6:arabic :iso-8859-6ISO8859-6
:iso8859-7:greek :iso-8859-7ISO8859-7
:iso8859-8:hebrew :iso-8859-8ISO8859-8
:iso8859-9:latin5 :latin-5 :iso-8859-9ISO8859-9
:iso8859-10:latin6 :latin-6 :iso-8859-10ISO8859-10
:iso8859-13:latin7 :latin-7 :iso-8859-13ISO8859-13
:iso8859-14:latin8 :latin-8 :iso-8859-14ISO8859-14
:iso8859-15:latin9 :latin-9 :iso-8859-15ISO8859-15
:utf-8:utf :utf8UTF-8
:utf-16:utf16UTF-16 with optional BOM
:utf-16-be:utf-16be :utf16-beUTF-16 big-endian (without BOM)
:utf-16-le:utf-16le :utf16-leUTF-16 little-endian (without BOM)
:utf-32:utf32UTF-32 with optional BOM
:utf-32-be:utf-32be :utf32-beUTF-32 big-endian (without BOM)
:utf-32-le:utf-32le :utf32-leUTF-32 little-endian (without BOM)
:cp1250
:cp1251
:cp1252:windows-1252 :windows-cp1252 :windows-latin1
:cp1253
:cp1254
:cp1255
:cp1256
:cp1257
:cp1258
:koi8-r
:mac-cyrillic
:mac-greek
:mac-icelandic
:mac-latin2
:mac-roman
:mac-turkish
:defaultThe format specified by *default-external-format*
:localeThe format obtained from the system locale setting

Table 13.1: External formats

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