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17  package org.apache.commons.codec;
18  
19  import java.nio.charset.Charset;
20  import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
21  
22  /**
23   * Charsets required of every implementation of the Java platform.
24   *
25   * From the Java documentation <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
26   * charsets</a>:
27   * <p>
28   * <cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings. Consult the
29   * release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. Consult the release
30   * documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. </cite>
31   * </p>
32   *
33   * <ul>
34   * <li>{@code US-ASCII}<p>
35   * Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.</p></li>
36   * <li>{@code ISO-8859-1}<p>
37   * ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.</p></li>
38   * <li>{@code UTF-8}<p>
39   * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.</p></li>
40   * <li>{@code UTF-16BE}<p>
41   * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.</p></li>
42   * <li>{@code UTF-16LE}<p>
43   * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.</p></li>
44   * <li>{@code UTF-16}<p>
45   * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order
46   * accepted on input, big-endian used on output.)</p></li>
47   * </ul>
48   *
49   * This perhaps would best belong in the Commons Lang project. Even if a similar class is defined in Commons Lang, it is
50   * not foreseen that Commons Codec would be made to depend on Commons Lang.
51   *
52   * <p>
53   * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
54   * </p>
55   *
56   * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
57   * @since 1.7
58   */
59  public class Charsets {
60  
61      //
62      // This class should only contain Charset instances for required encodings. This guarantees that it will load
63      // correctly and without delay on all Java platforms.
64      //
65  
66      /**
67       * CharEncodingISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.
68       * <p>
69       * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
70       * </p>
71       *
72       * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#ISO_8859_1} instead.
73       * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
74       */
75      @Deprecated
76      public static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;
77  
78      /**
79       * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
80       * <p>
81       * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
82       * </p>
83       *
84       * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#US_ASCII} instead.
85       * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
86       */
87      @Deprecated
88      public static final Charset US_ASCII = StandardCharsets.US_ASCII;
89  
90      /**
91       * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, The byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark
92       * (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output)
93       * <p>
94       * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
95       * </p>
96       *
97       * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_16} instead.
98       * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
99       */
100     @Deprecated
101     public static final Charset UTF_16 = StandardCharsets.UTF_16;
102 
103     /**
104      * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
105      * <p>
106      * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
107      * </p>
108      *
109      * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_16BE} instead.
110      * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
111      */
112     @Deprecated
113     public static final Charset UTF_16BE = StandardCharsets.UTF_16BE;
114 
115     /**
116      * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
117      * <p>
118      * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
119      * </p>
120      *
121      * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_16LE} instead.
122      * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
123      */
124     @Deprecated
125     public static final Charset UTF_16LE = StandardCharsets.UTF_16LE;
126 
127     /**
128      * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
129      * <p>
130      * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
131      * </p>
132      *
133      * @deprecated Use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_8} instead.
134      * @see <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
135      */
136     @Deprecated
137     public static final Charset UTF_8 = StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
138 
139     /**
140      * Returns the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null.
141      *
142      * @param charset
143      *            A charset or null.
144      * @return the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null
145      */
146     public static Charset toCharset(final Charset charset) {
147         return charset == null ? Charset.defaultCharset() : charset;
148     }
149 
150     /**
151      * Returns a Charset for the named charset. If the name is null, return the default Charset.
152      *
153      * @param charset
154      *            The name of the requested charset, may be null.
155      * @return a Charset for the named charset
156      * @throws java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException
157      *             If the named charset is unavailable
158      */
159     public static Charset toCharset(final String charset) {
160         return charset == null ? Charset.defaultCharset() : Charset.forName(charset);
161     }
162 
163     /**
164      * TODO Make private in 2.0.
165      *
166      * @deprecated TODO Make private in 2.0.
167      */
168     @Deprecated
169     public Charsets() {
170         // empty
171     }
172 }