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

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