Testing decode() Methods

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This section describes 4 different methods provided in JDK to decode byte sequences back to characters with a given encoding.

There are 4 methods to decode characters:

• CharsetDecoder.decode()
• Charset.decode()
• new String()
• InputStreamReader.read()

The ways to use those methods are similar to encode methods described in previous sections.

Exercise: Find out what is the default 'Charset' used in the 'String' class.

Sections in This Chapter

What Is Character Encoding?

Supported Character Encodings in JDK 1.4.1

EncodingSampler.java - Testing encode() Methods

Examples of CP1252 and ISO-8859-1 Encodings

Examples of US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-16BE Encodings

Examples of GB18030 Encoding

Testing decode() Methods