Appendix A. Java Encoding Schemes
This appendix describes the character-encoding schemes that are supported by the Java platform.
US-ASCII
US-ASCII is a 7-bit character set and encoding that covers the English-language alphabet. It is not large enough to cover the characters used in other languages, however, so it is not very useful for internationalization.
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1 is the character set for Western European languages. It's an 8-bit encoding scheme in which every encoded character takes exactly 8 bits. (With the remaining character sets, on the other hand, some codes are reserved to signal the start of a multibyte character.)
UTF-8
UTF-8 is an 8-bit encoding scheme. Characters from the English-language alphabet are all encoded using ...
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