
Charset represents a specific character encoding used to decode bytes to Unicode characters, and encode Unicode characters to bytes.
Slots
- equals
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Charset equality is based on the character set name ignoring case (names are not case-sensitive).
- fromStr
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static Charset fromStr(Str name, Bool checked := true)
Attempt to lookup a Charset by name. Use one of the predefined methods such as utf8 to get a standard encoding. If charset not found and checked is false return null, otherwise throw ParseErr.
- hash
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override Int hash()
Compute hash code based on case-insensitive name.
- name
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Str name()
Get the name of this character encoding.
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new privateMake()
Private constructor
- toStr
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override Str toStr()
Return name().
- utf16BE
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static Charset utf16BE()
An charset for "UTF-16BE" format (Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order).
- utf16LE
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static Charset utf16LE()
An charset for "UTF-16LE" format (Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order).
- utf8
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static Charset utf8()
An charset for "UTF-8" format (Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format).