Package java.nio.charset

Class Summary

Class	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.
CoderResult	A description of the result state of a coder.
CodingErrorAction	A typesafe enumeration for coding-error actions.
StandardCharsets	Constant definitions for the standard Charsets.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
CharacterCodingException	Checked exception thrown when a character encoding or decoding error occurs.
IllegalCharsetNameException	Unchecked exception thrown when a string that is not a legal charset name is used as such.
MalformedInputException	Checked exception thrown when an input byte sequence is not legal for given charset, or an input character sequence is not a legal sixteen-bit Unicode sequence.
UnmappableCharacterException	Checked exception thrown when an input character (or byte) sequence is valid but cannot be mapped to an output byte (or character) sequence.
UnsupportedCharsetException	Unchecked exception thrown when no support is available for a requested charset.

Error Summary

Error	Description
CoderMalfunctionError	Error thrown when the decodeLoop method of a CharsetDecoder, or the encodeLoop method of a CharsetEncoder, throws an unexpected exception.