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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package io.ipfs.multibase;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;

/**
 * Charsets required of every implementation of the Java platform.
 *
 * <p>From the Java documentation <a
 * href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
 * charsets</a>:
 *
 * <p><cite>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the following character
 * encodings. Consult the release documentation for your implementation to see if any other
 * encodings are supported. Consult the release documentation for your implementation to see if any
 * other encodings are supported. </cite>
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><code>US-ASCII</code><br>
 *       Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character
 *       set.
 *   <li><code>ISO-8859-1</code><br>
 *       ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.
 *   <li><code>UTF-8</code><br>
 *       Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
 *   <li><code>UTF-16BE</code><br>
 *       Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
 *   <li><code>UTF-16LE</code><br>
 *       Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
 *   <li><code>UTF-16</code><br>
 *       Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial
 *       byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output.)
 * </ul>
 *
 * This perhaps would best belong in the Commons Lang project. Even if a similar class is defined in
 * Commons Lang, it is not foreseen that Commons Codec would be made to depend on Commons Lang.
 *
 * <p>This class is immutable and thread-safe.
 *
 * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
 *     charsets</a>
 * @since 1.7
 * @version $Id: CharEncoding.java 1173287 2011-09-20 18:16:19Z ggregory $
 */
public class Charsets {

  //
  // This class should only contain Charset instances for required encodings. This guarantees that
  // it will load
  // correctly and without delay on all Java platforms.
  //

  /**
   * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode
   * character set.
   *
   * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
   *
   * <p>On Java 7 or later, use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#ISO_8859_1} instead.
   *
   * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
   *     charsets</a>
   */
  public static final Charset US_ASCII = Charset.forName(CharEncoding.US_ASCII);

  /**
   * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
   *
   * <p>Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
   *
   * <p>On Java 7 or later, use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#ISO_8859_1} instead.
   *
   * @see <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html">Standard
   *     charsets</a>
   */
  public static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName(CharEncoding.UTF_8);
}