Basic Encoding Set (contained in lib/rt.jar)
Supported by java.nio, java.io and java.lang APIs
| Canonical Name for java.nio API | Canonical Name for java.io and java.lang API | Description |
|---|---|---|
| US-ASCII | ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| windows-1250 | Cp1250 | Windows Eastern European |
| windows-1251 | Cp1251 | Windows Cyrillic |
| windows-1252 | Cp1252 | Windows Latin-1 |
| ISO-8859-1 | ISO8859_1 | ISO 8859-1, Latin Alphabet No. 1 |
| ISO-8859-15 | ISO8859_15 | Latin Alphabet No. 9 |
| KOI8-R | KOI8_R | KOI8-R, Russian |
| UTF-8 | UTF8 | Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format |
| UTF-16 | UTF-16 | Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark |
Update: Lesenswert Verwendung von Character Sets in Java