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017
018package org.apache.commons.codec;
019
020/**
021 * Character encoding names required of every implementation of the Java platform.
022 *
023 * From the Java documentation <a
024 * href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>:
025 * <p>
026 * <cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings. Consult the
027 * release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. Consult the release
028 * documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported.</cite>
029 * </p>
030 *
031 * <ul>
032 * <li><code>US-ASCII</code><br/>
033 * Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.</li>
034 * <li><code>ISO-8859-1</code><br/>
035 * ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.</li>
036 * <li><code>UTF-8</code><br/>
037 * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.</li>
038 * <li><code>UTF-16BE</code><br/>
039 * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.</li>
040 * <li><code>UTF-16LE</code><br/>
041 * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.</li>
042 * <li><code>UTF-16</code><br/>
043 * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order
044 * accepted on input, big-endian used on output.)</li>
045 * </ul>
046 *
047 * This perhaps would best belong in the [lang] project. Even if a similar interface is defined in [lang], it is not
048 * foreseen that [codec] would be made to depend on [lang].
049 *
050 * <p>
051 * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
052 * </p>
053 *
054 * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
055 * @since 1.4
056 * @version $Id: CharEncoding.html 891688 2013-12-24 20:49:46Z ggregory $
057 */
058public class CharEncoding {
059    /**
060     * CharEncodingISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.
061     * <p>
062     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
063     *
064     * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
065     */
066    public static final String ISO_8859_1 = "ISO-8859-1";
067
068    /**
069     * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
070     * <p>
071     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
072     *
073     * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
074     */
075    public static final String US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";
076
077    /**
078     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, The byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark
079     * (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output)
080     * <p>
081     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
082     *
083     * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
084     */
085    public static final String UTF_16 = "UTF-16";
086
087    /**
088     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
089     * <p>
090     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
091     *
092     * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
093     */
094    public static final String UTF_16BE = "UTF-16BE";
095
096    /**
097     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
098     * <p>
099     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
100     *
101     * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
102     */
103    public static final String UTF_16LE = "UTF-16LE";
104
105    /**
106     * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
107     * <p>
108     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
109     *
110     * @see <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
111     */
112    public static final String UTF_8 = "UTF-8";
113}