Character set digunakan untuk memberitahukan kepada browser bahwa character encoding yang mana perlu digunakan untuk meng-encode karakter-karakter.
Untuk menetapkan character set didalam dokumen HTML, gunakan elemen META. Untuk menetapkan character set bagi script block atau dokumen yang dilink, gunakan atribut CHARSET.
Berikut daftar sebagian kecil character set:
| Deskripsi | Nama Charset | Nama Lain |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic (ISO) | iso-8859-6 | iso-ir-127, ISO_8859-6, ISO-8859-6:1987, ECMA-114, ASMO-708, arabic, csISOLatinArabic |
| Baltic (ISO) | iso-8859-4 | iso-ir-110, ISO_8859-4, ISO-8859-4:1988, latin4, l4, csISOLatin4 |
| Central European (ISO) | iso-8859-2 | iso-ir-101, ISO_8859-2, ISO-8859-2:1987, latin2, l2, csISOLatin2 |
| Chinese Traditional (Big5) | big5 | csBig5, cn-big5, x-x-big5 |
| Cyrillic (ISO | Windows) | iso-8859-5 | windows-1251, iso-ir-144, ISO_8859-5, ISO-8859-5:1988, cyrillic, csISOLatinCyrillic, KOI8-U |
| Japanese (Katakana) | JIS_C6220-1969-jp | JIS_C6220-1969, iso-ir-13, katakana, x0201-7, csISO13JISC6220jp |
| Korean (ISO) | iso-2022-kr | csISO2022KR |
| Latin 3 (ISO) | iso-8859-3 | iso-ir-109, ISO_8859-3, ISO-8859-3:1988, latin3, l3, csISOLatin3 |
| Latin 9 (ISO) | iso-8859-15 | ISO_8859-15, Latin-9, l9, csISOLatin9 |
| Turkish (ISO | Windows) | iso-8859-9 | windows-1254, iso-ir-148, ISO_8859-9, ISO-8859-9:1989, latin5, l5, csISOLatin5 |
| Unicode | utf-16 | unicode |
| Unicode (UTF-16 Big-Endian) | unicodeFFFE | UTF-16BE |
| Unicode (UTF-32 Big-Endian) | utf-32BE | - |
| Unicode (UTF-32) | utf-32 | - |
| Unicode (UTF-7) | utf-7 | UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7, csUnicode11UTF7, x-unicode-2-0-utf-7 |
| Unicode (UTF-8) | utf-8 | unicode-1-1-utf-8, unicode-2-0-utf-8, x-unicode-2-0-utf-8 |
| US-ASCII | us-ascii | iso-ir-6, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ISO_646.irv:1991, ASCII, ISO646-US, us, IBM367, cp367, csASCII |
| Western European (ISO) | iso-8859-1 | iso-ir-100, ISO_8859-1, ISO_8859-1:1987, latin1, l1, IBM819, CP819, csISOLatin1 |
