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

Deprecated.
Use StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1 instead.

static final Charset

US_ASCII

Deprecated.
Use StandardCharsets.US_ASCII instead.

static final Charset

UTF_16

Deprecated.
Use StandardCharsets.UTF_16 instead.

static final Charset

UTF_16BE

Deprecated.
Use StandardCharsets.UTF_16BE instead.

static final Charset

UTF_16LE

Deprecated.
Use StandardCharsets.UTF_16LE instead.

static final Charset

UTF_8

Deprecated.
Use StandardCharsets.UTF_8 instead.
Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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