What are the most common answers to “Name a character encoding or character set”?

Most people start with ASCII, UTF 8 and Unicode. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a character encoding or character set”?

28 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 7 in The Deep, 12 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

The shortest accepted answer is “GBK” and the longest is “Windows 1252”.

Computer Science trivia

28 answers count for this computer science prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

These 5 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:

The Deep holds 7 answers starting with B, E, G, K and S. The Abyss has 12 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

28 answers in total, 16 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “GBK”. Longest: “Windows 1252”.
U, C and E are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
1 answers can be typed more than one way: “ISO 8859 1” counts as Latin 1.

What are the most common answers to “Name a character encoding or character set”?: Most people start with ASCII, UTF 8 and Unicode. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a character encoding or character set”?: 28 in all: 3 on The Tip, 5 Below the Surface, 7 in The Deep, 12 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
What is the shortest answer to “Name a character encoding or character set”?: The shortest accepted answer is “GBK” and the longest is “Windows 1252”.

How deep does your knowledge go?

Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.