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java.nio.charset
Classes
| Charset |
A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
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| CharsetDecoder |
An engine that can transform a sequence of bytes in a specific charset into a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters.
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| CharsetEncoder |
An engine that can transform a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters into a sequence of bytes in a specific charset.
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| CoderResult |
A description of the result state of a coder.
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| CodingErrorAction |
A typesafe enumeration for coding-error actions.
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| StandardCharsets |
Constant definitions for the standard Charsets.
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Exceptions
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Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC.
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