Charset

Class Charset

All Implemented Interfaces:
Comparable<Charset>
public abstract class Charset
extends Object
implements Comparable<Charset>

A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes. This class defines methods for creating decoders and encoders and for retrieving the various names associated with a charset. Instances of this class are immutable.

This class also defines static methods for testing whether a particular charset is supported, for locating char