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StandardCharsets
class StandardCharsets
Constant definitions for the standard Charsets. These charsets are guaranteed to be available on every implementation of the Java platform.
Summary
| Properties |
| static Charset! |
ISO Latin Alphabet No.
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| static Charset! |
Seven-bit ASCII, a.
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| static Charset! |
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark
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| static Charset! |
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order
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| static Charset! |
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order
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| static Charset! |
Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
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Properties
ISO_8859_1
static val ISO_8859_1: Charset!
ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1
US_ASCII
static val US_ASCII: Charset!
Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set
UTF_16
static val UTF_16: Charset!
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark
UTF_16BE
static val UTF_16BE: Charset!
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order
UTF_16LE
static val UTF_16LE: Charset!
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order
UTF_8
static val UTF_8: Charset!
Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
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Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC.
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