com.google.common.base
Class Charsets

java.lang.Object
  com.google.common.base.Charsets

@GwtCompatible(emulated=true)
public final class Charsets
extends Object

Contains constant definitions for the six standard Charset instances, which are guaranteed to be supported by all Java platform implementations.

Assuming you're free to choose, note that UTF_8 is widely preferred.

See the Guava User Guide article on Charsets.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Mike Bostock

Field Summary

static Charset	ISO_8859_1 ISO-8859-1: ISO Latin Alphabet Number 1 (ISO-LATIN-1).
static Charset	US_ASCII US-ASCII: seven-bit ASCII, the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set (ISO646-US).
static Charset	UTF_16 UTF-16: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark.
static Charset	UTF_16BE UTF-16BE: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
static Charset	UTF_16LE UTF-16LE: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
static Charset	UTF_8 UTF-8: eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

US_ASCII

@GwtIncompatible(value="Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final Charset US_ASCII

US-ASCII: seven-bit ASCII, the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set (ISO646-US).

ISO_8859_1

@GwtIncompatible(value="Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final Charset ISO_8859_1

ISO-8859-1: ISO Latin Alphabet Number 1 (ISO-LATIN-1).

UTF_8

public static final Charset UTF_8

UTF-8: eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.

UTF_16BE

@GwtIncompatible(value="Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final Charset UTF_16BE

UTF-16BE: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.

UTF_16LE

@GwtIncompatible(value="Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final Charset UTF_16LE

UTF-16LE: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.

UTF_16

@GwtIncompatible(value="Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final Charset UTF_16

UTF-16: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark.