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018    
019    package org.apache.commons.compress.utils;
020    
021    import java.nio.charset.Charset;
022    import java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException;
023    
024    /**
025     * Charsets required of every implementation of the Java platform.
026     * 
027     * From the Java documentation <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
028     * charsets</a>:
029     * <p>
030     * <cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character encodings. Consult the
031     * release documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. Consult the release
032     * documentation for your implementation to see if any other encodings are supported. </cite>
033     * </p>
034     * 
035     * <ul>
036     * <li><code>US-ASCII</code><br/>
037     * Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.</li>
038     * <li><code>ISO-8859-1</code><br/>
039     * ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.</li>
040     * <li><code>UTF-8</code><br/>
041     * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.</li>
042     * <li><code>UTF-16BE</code><br/>
043     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.</li>
044     * <li><code>UTF-16LE</code><br/>
045     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.</li>
046     * <li><code>UTF-16</code><br/>
047     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order
048     * accepted on input, big-endian used on output.)</li>
049     * </ul>
050     * 
051     * This class best belongs in the Commons Lang or IO project. Even if a similar class is defined in another Commons component, it is
052     * not foreseen that Commons Compress would be made to depend on another Commons component.
053     * 
054     * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
055     * @since 1.4
056     * @version $Id: Charsets.java 1309643 2012-04-05 04:01:32Z ggregory $
057     */
058    public class Charsets {
059        
060        //
061        // This class should only contain Charset instances for required encodings. This guarantees that it will load correctly and
062        // without delay on all Java platforms.
063        //
064        
065        /**
066         * Returns the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null. 
067         * 
068         * @param charset
069         *            A charset or null.
070         * @return the given Charset or the default Charset if the given Charset is null
071         */
072        public static Charset toCharset(Charset charset) {
073            return charset == null ? Charset.defaultCharset() : charset;
074        }
075    
076        /**
077         * Returns a Charset for the named charset. If the name is null, return the default Charset.
078         * 
079         * @param charset
080         *            The name of the requested charset, may be null.
081         * @return a Charset for the named charset
082         * @throws UnsupportedCharsetException
083         *             If the named charset is unavailable
084         */
085        public static Charset toCharset(String charset) {
086            return charset == null ? Charset.defaultCharset() : Charset.forName(charset);
087        }
088    
089        /**
090         * CharsetNamesISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1. </p>
091         * <p>
092         * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
093         * </p>
094         * 
095         * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
096         */
097        public static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.ISO_8859_1);
098    
099        /**
100         * <p>
101         * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
102         * </p>
103         * <p>
104         * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
105         * </p>
106         * 
107         * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
108         */
109        public static final Charset US_ASCII = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.US_ASCII);
110    
111        /**
112         * <p>
113         * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, The byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark
114         * (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output)
115         * </p>
116         * <p>
117         * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
118         * </p>
119         * 
120         * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
121         */
122        public static final Charset UTF_16 = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_16);
123    
124        /**
125         * <p>
126         * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
127         * </p>
128         * <p>
129         * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
130         * </p>
131         * 
132         * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
133         */
134        public static final Charset UTF_16BE = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_16BE);
135    
136        /**
137         * <p>
138         * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
139         * </p>
140         * <p>
141         * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
142         * </p>
143         * 
144         * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
145         */
146        public static final Charset UTF_16LE = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_16LE);
147    
148        /**
149         * <p>
150         * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
151         * </p>
152         * <p>
153         * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
154         * </p>
155         * 
156         * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard charsets</a>
157         */
158        public static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName(CharsetNames.UTF_8);
159    }