Default search provider encodings

Specify the character encodings supported by the search provider. Encodings are code page names like UTF-8, GB2312, and ISO-8859-1. They are tried in the order provided.

This policy is optional. If not configured, the default, UTF-8, is used.

This policy is applied only if you enable the 'DefaultSearchProviderEnabled' (Enable the default search provider) and 'DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL' (Default search provider search URL) policies.

Starting in Microsoft Edge 84, you can set this policy as a recommended policy. If the user has already set a default search provider, the default search provider configured by this recommended policy will not be added to the list of search providers the user can choose from. If this is the desired behavior, use the 'ManagedSearchEngines' (Manage Search Engines) policy.

Example value:

UTF-8
UTF-16
GB2312
ISO-8859-1

Default search provider encodings

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended\DefaultSearchProviderEncodings
Value Name	{number}
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value