StringEncodings.java

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package org.apache.commons.codec.net;

/**
 * String encodings used in this package.
 * 
 * @author Apache Software Foundation
 * @since 1.3
 * @version $Id: StringEncodings.java,v 1.2 2004/04/09 22:21:07 ggregory Exp $
 */
interface StringEncodings {
    /**
     * <p>
     * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names</a>
     */
    String US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";

    /**
     * <p>
     * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names</a>
     */
    String UTF8 = "UTF-8";
}