List of all supposed text encodings?

Hi,

I’m trying to read a binary file that has text encoded in big5. It may have other languages too.

When I try to read the file, I am able to get the string I want though it shows up as extended characters since the binar file itself isn’t in big5. I hope it’s possible to coerce into whatever encoding it might be in.

Is there a document that lists the supported encodings?

The language reference refers to international text. It seems I could read text files and get the proper encoding but if files are not encoding in the correct language or unicode, I can’t read them correctly.

Gary