Charset : Java Glossary

Charset

Sun’s nio class for improved encoding handling, translating between various national character sets — which glyphs are assigned which 8-bit slots, and also for multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE. Internally Java uses 16-bit Unicode.

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on Charset class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_18 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

Sun’s Javadoc on CharsetEncoder class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_18 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

Sun’s Javadoc on CharsetDecoder class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_18 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

Sun’s Javadoc on CharsetProvider class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_18 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

Character
encoding
Font
locale
localisation
Unicode
UTF

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