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17
18 package org.apache.commons.codec.net;
19
20 /**
21 * Character encoding names required of every implementation of the Java platform.
22 *
23 * According to the Java documentation <a
24 * href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character encoding names
25 * </a>:
26 * <p>
27 * <cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings. Consult the
28 * release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. </cite>
29 * </p>
30 *
31 * This interface is private to the package since it perhaps would best belong in the [lang] project with other required
32 * encoding names. As is, this interface only defines the names used in this package. Even if a similar interface is
33 * defined in [lang], it is not forseen that [codec] would be made to depend on [lang].
34 *
35 * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character encoding
36 * names </a>
37 * @author Apache Software Foundation
38 * @since 1.4
39 * @version $Id: CharacterEncodingNames.java 480406 2006-11-29 04:56:58Z bayard $
40 */
41 class CharacterEncodingNames {
42 /**
43 * <p>
44 * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
45 * </p>
46 * <p>
47 * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
48 * </p>
49 *
50 * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
51 * encoding names </a>
52 */
53 static final String US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";
54
55 /**
56 * <p>
57 * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
58 * </p>
59 * <p>
60 * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
61 * </p>
62 *
63 * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
64 * encoding names </a>
65 */
66 static final String UTF8 = "UTF-8";
67 }