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 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
 * Licensed 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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 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */

package org.apache.commons.lang;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

/**
 * TODO: Accept/Reject for 2.1.
 * 
 * Character encoding names required of every implementation of the Java platform.
 * 
 * According to the Java documentation <a
 * href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character encoding names
 * </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. </cite>
 * </p>
 * 
 * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character encoding
 *          names </a>
 * @author Apache Software Foundation
 * @since 2.1
 * @version $Id: CharacterEncoding.java,v 1.1 2004/08/03 17:15:32 ggregory Exp $
 */
public class CharacterEncoding {

    /**
     * <p>
     * ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static final String ISO_8859_1 = "ISO-8859-1";

    /**
     * <p>
     * Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static final String US_ASCII = "US-ASCII";

    /**
     * <p>
     * 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).
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static final String UTF_16 = "UTF-16";

    /**
     * <p>
     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static final String UTF_16BE = "UTF-16BE";

    /**
     * <p>
     * Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static final String UTF_16LE = "UTF-16LE";

    /**
     * <p>
     * Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static final String UTF_8 = "UTF-8";

    /**
     * <p>
     * Returns whether the named charset is supported.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * This is similar to <a
     * href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html#isSupported(java.lang.String)">java.nio.charset.Charset.isSupported(String)
     * </a>
     * </p>
     * 
     * @param name
     *                  The name of the requested charset; may be either a canonical name or an alias
     * @return <code>true</code> if, and only if, support for the named charset is available in the current Java virtual machine
     * 
     * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/package-summary.html#charenc">JRE character
     *          encoding names </a>
     */
    public static boolean isSupported(String name) {
        if (name == null) {
            return false;
        }
        try {
            new String(ArrayUtils.EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY, name);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

}
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