Module java.base
Package java.nio.charset

# Class StandardCharsets

java.lang.Object
java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets

public final class StandardCharsets extends Object
Constant definitions for the standard `charsets`. These charsets are guaranteed to be available on every implementation of the Java platform.

Since:
  1.7
See Also:
  - Standard Charsets

## Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type
Field
Description
`static final Charset`
`ISO_8859_1`
ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, also known as ISO-LATIN-1.
`static final Charset`
`US_ASCII`
Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
`static final Charset`
`UTF_16`
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark.
`static final Charset`
`UTF_16BE`
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
`static final Charset`
`UTF_16LE`
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
`static final Charset`
`UTF_8`
Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.

## Method Summary

### Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

## Field Details

### US_ASCII

public static final Charset US_ASCII
Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.

### ISO_8859_1

public static final Charset ISO_8859_1
ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, also known as ISO-LATIN-1.

### UTF_8

public static final Charset UTF_8
Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format.

### UTF_16BE

public static final Charset UTF_16BE
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.

### UTF_16LE

public static final Charset UTF_16LE
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.

### UTF_16

public static final Charset UTF_16
Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark.