Encoding CharsetNames for Charset.forName(String)

Question

I have a question about Charset.forName(String charsetName). Is there a list of charsetNames I can refer to? For example, for UTF-8, we use "utf8" for the charsetName. What about WINDOWS-1252, GB18030, etc.?

Answer 1

Charset         Description

US-ASCII        Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set
ISO-8859-1      ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1
UTF-8           Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
UTF-16BE        Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order
UTF-16LE        Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order
UTF-16          Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html

Answer 2

The charset names in Java are platform dependent, there are only 6 constants in the StandardCharsets class.

To view the all charsets you should look at IANA. Check Preferred MIME Name and aliases columns.