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  25 package java.nio.charset;
  26 
  27 /**
  28  * Constant definitions for the standard {@link Charset Charsets}. These
  29  * charsets are guaranteed to be available on every implementation of the Java
  30  * platform.
  31  *
  32  * @see <a href="Charset.html#standard">Standard Charsets</a>
  33  * @since 1.7
  34  */
  35 public final class StandardCharsets {
  36 
  37     private StandardCharsets() {
  38         throw new AssertionError("No java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets instances for you!");
  39     }
  40     /**
  41      * Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the
  42      * Unicode character set
  43      */
  44     public static final Charset US_ASCII = Charset.forName("US-ASCII");
  45     /**
  46      * ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1
  47      */
  48     public static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
  49     /**
  50      * Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
  51      */
  52     public static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
  53     /**
  54      * Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order
  55      */
  56     public static final Charset UTF_16BE = Charset.forName("UTF-16BE");
  57     /**
  58      * Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order
  59      */
  60     public static final Charset UTF_16LE = Charset.forName("UTF-16LE");
  61     /**
  62      * Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an
  63      * optional byte-order mark
  64      */
  65     public static final Charset UTF_16 = Charset.forName("UTF-16");
  66 }