AbstractExternalizableSymbolTable.java

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package joshua.corpus.vocab;


/**
 * Abstract symbol table capable of being externalized.
 *
 * @author Lane Schwartz
 */
public abstract class AbstractExternalizableSymbolTable extends AbstractSymbolTable
		implements ExternalizableSymbolTable {
	
	/** 
	 * Character set encoding used when exporting and importing
	 * binary files to and from disk.
	 */
	private String characterEncoding = "UTF-8";
	
	
	/* See Javadoc for SymbolTable interface. */
	public void setExternalizableEncoding(String charsetName) {
		characterEncoding = charsetName;
	}
	
	/* See Javadoc for SymbolTable interface. */
	public String getExternalizableEncoding() {
		return characterEncoding;
	}
	
}