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Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 7

DRAFT ea-b89

Uses of Package
java.nio.charset

Packages that use java.nio.charset
Package Description
java.io Provides for system input and output through data streams, serialization and the file system. 
java.lang Provides classes that are fundamental to the design of the Java programming language. 
java.nio.channels Defines channels, which represent connections to entities that are capable of performing I/O operations, such as files and sockets; defines selectors, for multiplexed, non-blocking I/O operations. 
java.nio.charset Defines charsets, decoders, and encoders, for translating between bytes and Unicode characters. 
java.nio.charset.spi Service-provider classes for the java.nio.charset package. 
java.util.zip Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP file formats. 
javax.tools Provides interfaces for tools which can be invoked from a program, for example, compilers. 
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by java.io
Class and Description
Charset
          A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
CharsetDecoder
          An engine that can transform a sequence of bytes in a specific charset into a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters.
CharsetEncoder
          An engine that can transform a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters into a sequence of bytes in a specific charset.
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by java.lang
Class and Description
Charset
          A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by java.nio.channels
Class and Description
CharsetDecoder
          An engine that can transform a sequence of bytes in a specific charset into a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters.
CharsetEncoder
          An engine that can transform a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters into a sequence of bytes in a specific charset.
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by java.nio.charset
Class and Description
CharacterCodingException
          Checked exception thrown when a character encoding or decoding error occurs.
Charset
          A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
CharsetDecoder
          An engine that can transform a sequence of bytes in a specific charset into a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters.
CharsetEncoder
          An engine that can transform a sequence of sixteen-bit Unicode characters into a sequence of bytes in a specific charset.
CoderResult
          A description of the result state of a coder.
CodingErrorAction
          A typesafe enumeration for coding-error actions.
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by java.nio.charset.spi
Class and Description
Charset
          A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by java.util.zip
Class and Description
Charset
          A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
 

Classes in java.nio.charset used by javax.tools
Class and Description
Charset
          A named mapping between sequences of sixteen-bit Unicode code units and sequences of bytes.
 


Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 7

DRAFT ea-b89

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