| Name | Character Set |
|---|---|
| 8859_3 | ISO 8859-3 (Latin Extended-B) Pinyin, Sami, Croatian, and a few others |
| 8859_4 | ISO 8859-4 (Latin Extended-C) |
| 8859_5 | ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic |
| 8859_6 | ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic |
| 8859_7 | ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek |
| 8859_8 | ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew |
| 8859_9 | ISO 8859-9 Latin/Turkish |
| Big5 | The Big 5 encoding for Chinese |
| CNS11643 | Chinese |
| Cp037 | EBCDIC American English |
| Cp273 | IBM273 |
| Cp277 | EBCDIC Danish/Norwegian |
| Cp278 | EBCDIC Finnish/Swedish |
| Cp280 | EBCDIC Italian |
| Cp284 | EBCDIC Spanish |
| Cp285 | EBCDIC UK English |
| Cp297 | EBCDIC French |
| Cp420 | EBCDIC Arabic 1 |
| Cp424 | EBCDIC Hebrew |
| Cp437 | the original DOS IBM PC character set, essentially ASCII with a few extra characters for drawing lines and boxes |
| Cp500 | EBCDIC Flemish/Romulsch |
| Cp737 | DOS Greek |
| Cp775 | DOS Baltic |
| Cp850 | DOS Latin-1 |
| Cp852 | DOS Latin-2 |
| Cp855 | DOS Cyrillic |
| Cp856 | IBM856 |
| Cp857 | DOS Turkish |
| Cp860 | DOS Portuguese |
| Cp861 | DOS Icelandic |
| Cp862 | DOS Hebrew |
| Cp863 | DOS Canadian French |
| Cp864 | DOS Arabic |
| Cp865 | IBM865 |
| Cp866 | IBM866 |
| Cp868 | EBCDIC Arabic |
| Cp869 | DOS modern Greek |
| Cp870 | EBCDIC Serbian |
| Cp871 | EBCDIC Icelandic |
| Cp874 | Windows Thai |
| Cp875 | IBM875 |
| Cp918 | EBCDIC Arabic 2 |
| Cp921 | IBM921 |
| Cp922 | IBM922 |
| Cp1006 | IBM1006 |
| Cp1025 | IBM1025 |
| Cp1026 | IBM1026 |
| Cp1046 | IBM1046 |
| Cp1097 | IBM1097 |
| Cp1098 | IBM1098 |
| Cp1112 | IBM1112 |
| Cp1122 | IBM1122 |
| Cp1123 | IBM1123 |
| Cp1124 | IBM1124 |
| Cp1250 | Windows Eastern European (essentially ISO Latin-2) |
| Cp1251 | Windows Cyrillic |
| Cp1252 | Windows Western European (essentially ISO-Latin-1) |
| Cp1253 | Windows Greek |
| Cp1254 | Windows Turkish |
| Cp1255 | Windows Hebrew |
| Cp1256 | Windows Arabic |
| Cp1257 | Windows Baltic |
| Cp1258 | Windows Vietnamese |
| EUCJIS | Japanese EUC |
| GB2312 | Chinese |
| JIS | Japanese Hiragana |
| JIS0208 | Japanese |
| KSC5601 | Korean |
| MacArabic | The Macintosh Arabic character set |
| MacCentralEurope | The Macintosh Central European character set |
| MacCroatian | The Macintosh Croatian character set |
| MacCyrillic | The Macintosh Cyrillic character set |
| MacDingbat | Zapf Dingbats |
| MacGreek | The Macintosh modern Greek character set |
| MacHebrew | The Macintosh Hebrew character set |
| MacIceland | The Macintosh Icelandic character set |
| MacRoman | The Macintosh Roman character set |
| MacRomania | The Macintosh Romanian character set |
| MacSymbol | The Symbol font (includes a complete Greek alphabet in place of the usual Roman letters) |
| MacThai | The Macintosh Thai character set |
| MacTurkish | The Macintosh Turkish character set |
| MacUkraine | The Macintosh Ukrainian character set |
| SJIS | Windows Japanese |
| UTF8 | UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form |
| Unicode | Normal Unicode |
| UnicodeBig | Unicode with big-endian byte order |
Note that just because Java can read and write the appropriate bytes for a character set does not mean the host platform has the fonts needed to display that character set.