org.apache.commons.codec

Class Charsets

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.codec.Charsets

public class Charsets
extends Object

Charsets required of every implementation of the Java platform. From the Java documentation Standard charsets:

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings. Consult the release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. Consult the release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported.

• US-ASCII

  Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.

• ISO-8859-1

  ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.

• UTF-8

  Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.

• UTF-16BE

  Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.

• UTF-16LE

  Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.

• UTF-16

  Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output.)

This perhaps would best belong in the Commons Lang project. Even if a similar class is defined in Commons Lang, it is not foreseen that Commons Codec would be made to depend on Commons Lang.

This class is immutable and thread-safe.

Since:

1.7

See Also:

Standard charsets

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static Charset	ISO_8859_1 CharEncodingISO Latin Alphabet No.
static Charset	US_ASCII Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
static Charset	UTF_16 Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, The byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output)
static Charset	UTF_16BE Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
static Charset	UTF_16LE Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
static Charset	UTF_8 Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Charsets()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Charset	toCharset(Charset charset) Returns the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null.
static Charset	toCharset(String charset) Returns a Charset for the named charset.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

ISO_8859_1

public static final Charset ISO_8859_1

CharEncodingISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

On Java 7 or later, use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

See Also:

Standard charsets

US_ASCII

public static final Charset US_ASCII

Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

On Java 7 or later, use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

See Also:

Standard charsets

UTF_16

public static final Charset UTF_16

Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, The byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output)

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

On Java 7 or later, use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

See Also:

Standard charsets

UTF_16BE

public static final Charset UTF_16BE

Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

On Java 7 or later, use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

See Also:

Standard charsets

UTF_16LE

public static final Charset UTF_16LE

Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

On Java 7 or later, use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

See Also:

Standard charsets

UTF_8

public static final Charset UTF_8

Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

On Java 7 or later, use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

See Also:

Standard charsets

Constructor Detail

Charsets

public Charsets()

Method Detail

toCharset

public static Charset toCharset(Charset charset)

Returns the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null.

Parameters:

charset - A charset or null.

Returns:

the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null

toCharset

public static Charset toCharset(String charset)

Returns a Charset for the named charset. If the name is null, return the default Charset.

Parameters:

charset - The name of the requested charset, may be null.

Returns:

a Charset for the named charset

Throws:

UnsupportedCharsetException - If the named charset is unavailable