Our TXT encoding converter supports multiple character encoding formats and can solve various text file garbled character issues. Below is the complete list of supported encodings.
Unicode Encoding Series
UTF-8 - Universal global encoding, supports all language characters, recommended for use
UTF-16 - 16-bit Unicode encoding, commonly used in Windows systems
UTF-16BE - UTF-16 big-endian encoding
UTF-16LE - UTF-16 little-endian encoding
UTF-32 - 32-bit Unicode encoding, takes up more space
Chinese Encoding Formats
GBK - Commonly used encoding in mainland China, supports simplified and traditional Chinese
GB2312 - Simplified Chinese encoding standard for mainland China
GB18030 - Chinese national standard encoding, compatible with GBK and GB2312
Big5 - Traditional Chinese encoding for Taiwan and Hong Kong regions
Big5-HKSCS - Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set encoding
Japanese Encoding Formats
Shift_JIS - Default encoding for Japanese Windows systems
EUC-JP - Commonly used encoding for Japanese Unix/Linux systems
ISO-2022-JP - Commonly used encoding for Japanese emails and web pages
Korean Encoding Formats
EUC-KR - Commonly used encoding format in Korea
CP949 - Korean Windows system encoding
Western European Language Encodings
ISO-8859-1 - Western European language encoding, supports English, French, German, etc.
ISO-8859-15 - Western European language encoding, includes Euro symbol
Windows-1252 - Windows Western European language encoding
Russian and Eastern European Encodings
ISO-8859-5 - Cyrillic alphabet encoding, supports Russian, Bulgarian, etc.
Windows-1251 - Windows Russian encoding
KOI8-R - Traditional Russian encoding format
Other Common Encodings
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange, supports basic English characters
ISO-8859-2 - Central European language encoding
ISO-8859-7 - Greek language encoding
ISO-8859-8 - Hebrew language encoding
ISO-8859-9 - Turkish language encoding
Why is UTF-8 Encoding Recommended?
🌍 Global Universal Standard
UTF-8 is an international standard encoding that supports characters from all languages worldwide, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, etc.
📱 Good Device Compatibility
Modern e-book readers, text editors, and mobile applications all support UTF-8 encoding by default, ensuring files display correctly on different devices.
💻 Preferred for Programming Development
All mainstream programming languages and development tools recommend using UTF-8 encoding to avoid garbled Chinese comments in code.
🌐 Web Standard Encoding
HTML5 standard recommends using UTF-8 encoding to ensure web content displays correctly in various browsers.
🔄 Backward Compatible
UTF-8 is fully compatible with ASCII encoding, English characters take up the same space, and Chinese characters are also handled correctly.
📊 Data Exchange Standard
Data formats like JSON, XML, CSV all recommend using UTF-8 encoding for convenient data exchange and processing.
Common Encoding Problem Solutions
Problem: TXT files display garbled characters when opened
Solution: Use our encoding converter to convert the file to UTF-8 encoding, and Chinese content will display normally.
Problem: Lyrics files (.lrc) are garbled
Solution: Lyrics files usually use GBK or GB2312 encoding. After converting to UTF-8, they can display normally in various music players.
Problem: Subtitle files (.srt) are garbled
Solution: Subtitle file encodings are inconsistent. After converting to UTF-8 encoding, they can display correctly in various video players.
Problem: CSV files are garbled in Excel
Solution: Excel has good UTF-8 support. Converting CSV files to UTF-8 encoding can solve Chinese garbled character issues.