It's not a de facto standard, it's a de jure standard. Under the various relevant standards, Unicode is the only character set, and UTF-8 the only encoding of that character set, which are guaranteed to be available to you.
You can use 16 or 32-bit encodings of Unicode internally, but except for interfacing to legacy stuff, NOBODY, ANYWHERE, should be speaking anything but UTF-8. It's what lets the world talk together. The root standard here is ISO-10646, and everything from the XML and HTML and HTTP standards to the Java language itself reference it. If you want more information, go to unicode.org -- they have a huge amount of information. If you're going to be doing a lot of international text stuff, it may be worth buying a copy of the standard. I'd get the Unicode standard rather than the corresponding ISO-10646 document, because it's a lot more practical and usable, but it's ultimately essentially the same thing -- Unicode.org pretty much drives the ISO-10646 standard. On Mar 15, 1:42 pm, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com> wrote: > UTF-8 is the de-facto standard for encoding. > > You can find all the encoding types in the Http class. > > Thanks and Regards, > Kumar Bibek > > On Mar 16, 1:15 am, Nikolay Ananiev <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Just use UTF-8 encoding and everything should work fine. UTF-8 is like > > magic! > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:07 PM, lordjoe <lordjoe2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Assume I want to write an xml resource file with a a non-europian > > > language, say > > > japanese, thai or chinese- What encodings can I use and > > > what do I have to to to both the xml header and the Writer to makes > > > these work - > > > Also is there an easy way to map a Locale into acceptable encodings > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
