$CharacterEncoding
 Usage
• $CharacterEncoding specifies the default raw character encoding to use for input and output functions.
Notes
• The setting $CharacterEncoding = None takes all special characters to be represented externally by printable ASCII sequences such as \[Name] and \:xxxx. • Examples of other possible settings include:
| "AdobeStandard" | Adobe standard PostScript font encoding | | "ASCII" | full ASCII, with control characters | | "EUC" | extended Unix code for Japanese | | "ISOLatin1" | ISO 8859-1 standard | | "ISOLatin2" | ISO 8859-2 standard | | "ISOLatin3" | ISO 8859-3 standard | | "ISOLatin4" | ISO 8859-4 standard | | "ISOLatinCyrillic" | ISO 8859-5 standard | | "MacintoshRoman" | Macintosh roman font encoding | | "PrintableASCII" | printable ASCII | | "ShiftJIS" | shift-JIS encoding of JIS X 0208-1990 and extensions | | "Symbol" | symbol font encoding | | "Unicode" | raw 16-bit Unicode | | "UTF8" | Unicode transformation format | | "WindowsANSI" | Windows standard font encoding | | "ZapfDingbats" | Zapf dingbats font encoding |
• With $CharacterEncoding = "encoding" characters that are included in the encoding can be input in their raw 8- or 16-bit form, and will be output in this form. • Unencoded characters can be input and will be output in standard \[Name] or \:xxxx form. • When using a text-based interface, resetting the value of $CharacterEncoding has an immediate effect on standard input and output in a Mathematica session. • When using the notebook front end, raw character encodings are normally handled automatically based on the fonts you use. Only raw 16-bit Unicode is ever sent through the MathLink connection to the kernel. • $CharacterEncoding affects the input and output of all characters, including those in symbol names and comments. • $CharacterEncoding also affects characters that appear in Text graphics primitives. • New in Version 3.
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