+# $Id$
+# $Name$
+
# Mapping of charsets for gedcom parsing
# Each line contains (separated by whitespace):
# - the gedcom name
# - a token identifying the width of characters and the ordering;
# currently supported values: 1, 2_LOHI, 2_HILO
# - the iconv name of the charset
-UNICODE 2_LOHI UTF16LE
-UNICODE 2_HILO UTF16BE
+
+# First the encodings supported by the GEDCOM standard
+UNICODE 2_LOHI UNICODELITTLE
+UNICODE 2_HILO UNICODEBIG
ASCII 1 ASCII
-ANSI 1 CP1252
ANSEL 1 ANSEL
+
+# Then some very frequently used non-standard encodings:
+# Note that CP1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, so that is covered too
+ANSI 1 CP1252