# Configuration `Zend\Escaper\Escaper` has only one configuration option available, and that is the encoding to be used by the `Escaper` instance. The default encoding is **utf-8**. Other supported encodings are: - iso-8859-1 - iso-8859-5 - iso-8859-15 - cp866, ibm866, 866 - cp1251, windows-1251 - cp1252, windows-1252 - koi8-r, koi8-ru - big5, big5-hkscs, 950, gb2312, 936 - shift\_jis, sjis, sjis-win, cp932 - eucjp, eucjp-win - macroman If an unsupported encoding is passed to `Zend\Escaper\Escaper`, a `Zend\Escaper\Exception\InvalidArgumentException` will be thrown.