StringEncodings.java revision 069490a5ca2fd1988d29daf45d892f47ad665115 
1/*
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15 */
16
17package org.apache.commons.codec.net;
18
19/**
20 * String encodings used in this package.
21 *
22 * @author Apache Software Foundation
23 * @since 1.3
24 * @version $Id: StringEncodings.java,v 1.2 2004/04/09 22:21:07 ggregory Exp $
25 */
26interface StringEncodings {
27    /**
28     * <p>
29     * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
30     * </p>
31     * <p>
32     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
33     * </p>
34     *
35     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
36     *          encoding names</a>
37     */
38    String US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";
39
40    /**
41     * <p>
42     * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
43     * </p>
44     * <p>
45     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
46     * </p>
47     *
48     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
49     *          encoding names</a>
50     */
51    String UTF8 = "UTF-8";
52}
53