Package com.google.common.base

Class Charsets

  • @GwtCompatible(emulated=true)
public final class Charsets
extends java.lang.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

    • Field Summary

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

    • Method Summary

      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

    • Field Detail

      • US_ASCII

        @GwtIncompatible("Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final java.nio.charset.Charset US_ASCII
        US-ASCII: seven-bit ASCII, the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set (ISO646-US).

      • ISO_8859_1

        @GwtIncompatible("Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final java.nio.charset.Charset ISO_8859_1
        ISO-8859-1: ISO Latin Alphabet Number 1 (ISO-LATIN-1).

      • UTF_8

        public static final java.nio.charset.Charset UTF_8
        UTF-8: eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.

      • UTF_16BE

        @GwtIncompatible("Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final java.nio.charset.Charset UTF_16BE
        UTF-16BE: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.

      • UTF_16LE

        @GwtIncompatible("Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final java.nio.charset.Charset UTF_16LE
        UTF-16LE: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.

      • UTF_16

        @GwtIncompatible("Non-UTF-8 Charset")
public static final java.nio.charset.Charset UTF_16
        UTF-16: sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark.