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:''"Charset" redirects here. For character sets in general, see [[Character encoding]].''

An '''IANA character set name''' (often simply called a '''charset''') is a standardized name for a [[character encoding]]. Many standards, such as [[HTML]] and [[MIME]], make use of these standard names. Examples of such names are "US-ASCII", "UTF-8", "windows-1252", and "Shift_JIS".

The names are case-insensitive. Aliases (multiple names for the same encoding) are common.

== Links ==
* [http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml IANA → Protocol Assignments → Character Sets]
* RFC 2978: IANA Charset Registration Procedures

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