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    017
    018package org.apache.commons.lang3;
    019
    020import java.nio.charset.Charset;
    021import java.nio.charset.IllegalCharsetNameException;
    022
    023/**
    024 * <p>Character encoding names required of every implementation of the Java platform.</p>
    025 *
    026 * <p>According to <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
    027 * encoding names</a>:</p>
    028 *
    029 * <p><cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings.
    030 * Consult the release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported.
    031 * </cite></p>
    032 *
    033 * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html">JRE character encoding names</a>
    034 * @since 2.1
    035 * @deprecated Java 7 introduced {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets}, which defines these constants as
    036 * {@link Charset} objects. Use {@link Charset#name()} to get the string values provided in this class.
    037 * This class will be removed in a future release.
    038 */
    039@Deprecated
    040public class CharEncoding {
    041
    042    /**
    043     * <p>ISO Latin Alphabet #1, also known as ISO-LATIN-1.</p>
    044     *
    045     * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.</p>
    046     */
    047    public static final String ISO_8859_1 = "ISO-8859-1";
    048
    049    /**
    050     * <p>Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block
    051     * of the Unicode character set.</p>
    052     *
    053     * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.</p>
    054     */
    055    public static final String US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";
    056
    057    /**
    058     * <p>Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial
    059     * byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output).</p>
    060     *
    061     * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.</p>
    062     */
    063    public static final String UTF_16 = "UTF-16";
    064
    065    /**
    066     * <p>Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.</p>
    067     *
    068     * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.</p>
    069     */
    070    public static final String UTF_16BE = "UTF-16BE";
    071
    072    /**
    073     * <p>Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.</p>
    074     *
    075     * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.</p>
    076     */
    077    public static final String UTF_16LE = "UTF-16LE";
    078
    079    /**
    080     * <p>Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.</p>
    081     *
    082     * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.</p>
    083     */
    084    public static final String UTF_8 = "UTF-8";
    085
    086    /**
    087     * <p>Returns whether the named charset is supported.</p>
    088     *
    089     * <p>This is similar to <a
    090     * href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html#isSupported%28java.lang.String%29">
    091     * java.nio.charset.Charset.isSupported(String)</a> but handles more formats</p>
    092     *
    093     * @param name  the name of the requested charset; may be either a canonical name or an alias, null returns false
    094     * @return {@code true} if the charset is available in the current Java virtual machine
    095     * @deprecated Please use {@link Charset#isSupported(String)} instead, although be aware that {@code null}
    096     * values are not accepted by that method and an {@link IllegalCharsetNameException} may be thrown.
    097     */
    098    @Deprecated
    099    public static boolean isSupported(final String name) {
    100        if (name == null) {
    101            return false;
    102        }
    103        try {
    104            return Charset.isSupported(name);
    105        } catch (final IllegalCharsetNameException ex) {
    106            return false;
    107        }
    108    }
    109
    110}