Character encoding to use for subsequent read and write operations, including fscanf, fprintf, fgetl, fgets, fread, and fwrite, specified as a character vector or a string scalar. The character vector or string scalar must contain a standard character encoding scheme name such as the following.

"Big5"

"ISO-8859-1"

"windows-874"

"Big5-HKSCS"

"ISO-8859-2"

"windows-949"

"CP949"

"ISO-8859-3"

"windows-1250"

"EUC-KR"

"ISO-8859-4"

"windows-1251"

"EUC-JP"

"ISO-8859-5"

"windows-1252"

"EUC-TW"

"ISO-8859-6"

"windows-1253"

"GB18030"

"ISO-8859-7"

"windows-1254"

"GB2312"

"ISO-8859-8"

"windows-1255"

"GBK"

"ISO-8859-9"

"windows-1256"

"IBM866"

"ISO-8859-11"

"windows-1257"

"KOI8-R"

"ISO-8859-13"

"windows-1258"

"KOI8-U"

"ISO-8859-15"

"US-ASCII"

"Macintosh"

"UTF-8"

"Shift_JIS"

If you do not specify an encoding scheme when opening a file for reading, fopen uses auto character-set detection to determine the encoding. If you do not specify an encoding scheme when opening a file for writing, fopen defaults to using UTF-8 in order to provide interoperability between all platforms and locales without data loss or corruption. For more information, see Import Text Data Files with Low-Level I/O.

If you specify a value for encoding that is not in the list of supported values, MATLAB issues a warning. Specifying other encoding names sometimes (but not always) produces correct results.

Data Types: char | string